Quartermaster Seaman Tesia Braswell takes visual bearings as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departs from San Diego.
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SAN DIEGO (Dec. 06, 2010) Quartermaster Seaman Tesia Braswell takes visual bearings as the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departs from San Diego. Nimitz is conducting an administrative homeport change from Naval Base Coronado to Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash. during a docking planned incremental availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Alexander A. Ventura II) File# 101206-N-4833V-115
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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