Sailors from deck department spray down an anchor chain as a wildcat pulls it in during a precision anchoring exercise in the forecastle aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (May. 14, 2007) Sailors from deck department spray down an anchor chain as a wildcat pulls it in during a precision anchoring exercise in the forecastle aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman is currently underway conducting carrier qualifications in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Kevin T. Murray Jr. File# 070514-N-8923M-118
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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