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Edward J. Campbell, president of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., delivers a speech at the christening ceremony of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) as the LINCOLN's bow, decorated with a silhouette of its namesake, looms over the speakers platform.  Joann Webb (seated, behind Campbell, ship's sponsor and wife of Secretary of the Navy James H. Webb Jr., will perform the christening

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Edward J. Campbell, president of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., delivers a speech at the christening ceremony of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) as the LINCOLN's bow, decorated with a silhouette of its namesake, looms over the speakers platform. Joann Webb (seated, behind Campbell, ship's sponsor and wife of Secretary of the Navy James H. Webb Jr., will perform the christening

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Base: Newport News

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 P.S. Dunn

Release Status: Released to Public
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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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13/02/1988
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