Tugboats relocate the caisson damming the Elizabeth River from Dry Dock 8 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard before moving the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Aug. 26, 2014) Tugboats relocate the caisson damming the Elizabeth River from Dry Dock 8 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard before moving the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) to a nearby pier following a scheduled dock flooding earlier in the morning. Dwight D. Eisenhower is undergoing docking planned incremental availability at the shipyard. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael R. Gendron) File# 140826-N-XD363-233
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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