Deck department Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) attach rigging lines to a rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB).
Summary
Portsmouth, Va. (Oct. 02, 2006) Deck department Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) attach rigging lines to a rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB). Harry S. Truman is currently conducting a planned incremental availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), Portsmouth, Virginia. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Justin Smelley File# 061002-N-2858S-001
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.