The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

In his last week in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has named two aircraft carriers being built after former presidents – ...

The White House announced that the Navy chose to name the fifth and sixth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers as USS ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, leaders of the United States Navy, such as Admiral Marc Mitscher, dreamed up a new ...

While not the first aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) has the distinction of being the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier. Converted in 1920 from the ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The 1,052-foot-long ship, which has been housed at the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility since 2008, is making ...

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its ...

"Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally ...

Kennedy, commissioned in 1968, was the first to be named for the 35th President of the United States and the last "conventionally powered" aircraft carrier built by the Navy, a Naval Sea Systems ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F ... along the eastern seaboard of the United States," an observer with the Kennedy's battle group wrote, per the Navy. The Kennedy also played an early role in ...