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

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 ...

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

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

The Nimitz and her namesake class of flat-top aircraft carriers have been a stable to America's naval fleet for fifty years, ...

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

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

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

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 aircraft carrier, which has been docked in South Philadelphia since 2008, will make its exit through the Delaware River.

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

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