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Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) remove mattresses from the ship at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
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SAN DIEGO (Aug. 22, 2008) Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) remove mattresses from the ship at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. Thousands of mattresses, and tons of equipment and supplies were removed from the ship during its three weeks in port. The ship will depart Aug. 28 for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash., to prepare for decommissioning early next year. While the ship was in San Diego, more than 2,000 Kitty Hawk and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 Sailors moved to USS George Washington (CVN 73) which will replace Kitty Hawk as the Navy's only aircraft carrier operating from Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau/) File# 080822-N-7883G-059
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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