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USS John F. Kennedy passes Gibraltar
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At sea with USS John F. Kennedy The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier passes the Rock of Gibraltar, a British owned territory at the extreme southern end of Spain. Escorted by HH-60H Seahawk helicopters assigned to the Nightdippers of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Five (HS-5), Kennedy and its embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) transited the Atlantic Ocean marking the start of a scheduled deployment, and is expected to relieve USS Theodore Roosevelt (CN 71), to conduct missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 1st Class Jim Hampshire File# 020223-N-6492H-501
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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