Sailors watch from the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as the ship passes USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

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Sailors watch from the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as the ship passes USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

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SAN DIEGO (Sep. 18, 2017) Sailors watch from the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as the ship passes USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). John C. Stennis is at Naval Air Station North Island for a scheduled stop while training for future operations after conducting carrier qualifications and completing flight deck certification at sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson G. Brown) File# 170918-N-ZO915-002

Carriers

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.