Sailors of the guided-missile cruiser USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51) man the rails as the ship gets underway from its homeport at Naval Station Pascagoula

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Sailors of the guided-missile cruiser USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51) man the rails as the ship gets underway from its homeport at Naval Station Pascagoula

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Pascagoula, Miss. (Mar. 10, 2004) Sailors of the guided-missile cruiser USS Thomas S. Gates (CG 51) man the rails as the ship gets underway from its homeport at Naval Station Pascagoula. While deployed, the ship will take part in a variety of missions, including a circumnavigation of the South American continent. Gates' deployment will include counter-drug operations; port visits along the Eastern Atlantic seaboard and international exercises with South American Navies. Gates will be the visiting ship for the U.S. Naval Academy graduation and will also be the escort ship for the nation's newest aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as it heads for its new homeport in San Diego. U.S. Navy photo by Stacey Byington. File# 040310-N-4397B-003

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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.