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Machinery Repairman Fireman Nicholas Crowe of Carthage, Texas, cuts open the outer door.
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Atlantic Ocean (Jan. 29, 2004) Machinery Repairman Fireman Nicholas Crowe of Carthage, Texas, cuts open the outer door sheathing that covers the locking mechanism on a safe aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). The safe lock was old and it failed to respond to the set combination. Materials were inside the safe precluding the use of a cutting torch. The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a routine scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman Andrew Morrow. File# 040129-N-7871M-001
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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