Explore: Forrestal (aircraft Carrier)

The Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were four aircraft carriers designed and built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. The class ship was named

(Antisubmarine Aircraft Carrier) and CVN (Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear Propulsion)). Beginning with the Forrestal class, (CV-59 to present) all carriers commissioned

October 1955, with Captain Roy L. Johnson in command. Forrestal was the first American aircraft carrier to be constructed with an angled flight deck, steam

The Midway class was a class of three United States Navy aircraft carriers. The lead ship, USS Midway, was commissioned in September 1945 and decommissioned

Aircraft carriers are warships that evolved from balloon-carrying wooden vessels into nuclear-powered vessels carrying many dozens of fixed- and rotary-wing

aft end of the angle made it useful for aircraft movement, since the forward-end elevator in the Forrestals was sited in both the landing path and in

On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, which was engaged in combat in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War

500 (other). The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers were ordered to supplement the aircraft carriers of the Midway, Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise classes

The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The 20th century's most numerous class of capital ship, the class consisted

The 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier, commonly referred to as the British Light Fleet Carrier, was a light aircraft carrier design created by the Royal