Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap ...

USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered ... Arleigh Burke /in 1961, according to the US Naval History and Heritage Command Kitty Hawk was the first carrier of its class and had ...

On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey. The vessel, measuring 1,053 feet in length and with a displacement of ...

USS Kitty Hawk, off the coast of Japan, Pacific Ocean, April 15, 2002: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Lazenby, an air traffic controller, updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk ...

1965, more than 300 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., began a four-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Kitty Hawk: ...

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

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

Residents in the Chilean Port of Valparaíso have reported sighting the historic USS Kitty Hawk as she was being towed through the Pacific Ocean on her way to her final scrapping. The Kitty Hawk's ...

On a cold, dreary Thursday in Philadelphia, a smattering of people came to the waterfront to see the former Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) begin its final journey.

After USS Kitty Hawk was retired in 2009, a veterans’ association raised $5 million to see the warship preserved as a floating museum. However, the U.S. Navy deep-sixed the plan, ­and both CV ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation ... Not only will the Kennedy go down in history for its involvement in key conflicts in US history, but it was also the setting ...