2015年10月15日 · Ship History The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was commissioned on 25 November 1961 and completed 25 deployments during 51 years of service. Click the links below to access the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entries for Enterprise, which provide the carrier's history by time period. 1961–1965 | 1966–1970 | 1971–1975 | 1976–1980 | 1981–1985 1986–1990 ...

“The one ship that most nearly symbolizes the history of the United States Navy in World War II.” -James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy The seventh Enterprise (CV-6) was laid down July 16, 1934; launched Oct. 3, 1936; and commissioned May 12, 1938, with Captain Newton H. White in command. The ship’s sponsor was Lulie H. Swanson, wife of …

USS Enterprise (CVN-65, later CVAN-65 and CVN-65), 1961-2017 Commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on November 25, 1961, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier.  Ordered to assist the Project Mercury Program in February 1962, she tracked and measured the flight of the first American orbital spaceflight, Friendship 7.   During the Cuban Missile ...

2015年7月8日 · The eighth Enterprise (CVA(N)-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was laid down on 4 February 1958 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; launched on 24 September 1960; sponsored by Mrs. William B. Franke, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned on 25 November 1961, Captain ...

The Yorktown class aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CV-6) was commissioned at Newport News, Virginia, on May 12, 1938. Relocating to the Pacific, she was at sea during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Three days after, she became the first U.S. Navy warship to sink a Japanese warship, submarine I-70, and later that month participated in the Wake Island expedition. In ...

2016年6月30日 · They practiced protecting a convoy during a voyage to the Caribbean, and Enterprise anchored at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands on 8 January, Guantánamo Bay on 16 January, on 19 January at Gonaïves Bay, where the two carriers joined Aircraft, Battle Force, Carrier Division 2, and Enterprise anchored again at Guantánamo on 30 January.

An attempt was also made to replace the slatted aircraft elevator platforms, Enterprise then being the only carrier so fitted, with solid surface platforms, but design flaws discovered in the latter caused the project to be abandoned. The ship conducted a fast cruise, 27 February, and sea trials, 2 9 March, and again 20 25 March, when she also ...

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the most decorated ship of World War II.The Enterprise exhibit features a number of artifacts from her service, ranging from personal items donated by former crewmen, to pieces of the ship herself such as her helm and engine orders telegraph station.

2019年1月31日 · Although there have been other fires on aircraft carriers, Enterprise was the last major conflagration. Sadly, many of the lessons from carrier fires in World War II had been forgotten; this certainly the case by the time of the 1953 fire on USS Leyte (CV-32), in which 32 were killed, and the 1954 fire on USS Bennington (CV-20), in which 103 ...

2016年8月3日 · The following listing covers port visits for carriers (CV, CVA, CVAN, CVS) deployed to Vietnam during the conflict. Sources for the information are listed in the text. Compiled in August 2003 by the Naval Aviation History Branch, Naval Warfare Division, Naval History and Heritage Command. NOTE: THE LIST OF RECORDS BELOW ARE THE ONLY DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE NAVAL HISTORY ...