What You Need to Know: On January 14, 1969, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise suffered one of the worst peacetime disasters in U.S. Navy history while preparing for its fourth deployment to Vietnam.

Sinking the USS Enterprise Would be Easier Than Scrapping Her: The USS Enterprise, CVN-65, was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Launched in 1958, it was the eighth vessel in the US Navy to ...

The Nimitz, now the oldest active aircraft ... the U.S. Navy and the first of ten carriers in the Nimitz class. Compared to the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVN ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport ...