On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey.

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 will have to go all the way down to the tip of South America and back up because it is too big to get through the Panama Canal. USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard ... Many histories do not mention the race riot that occurred below decks in 1972. Nobody is quite sure how it ...

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 ...

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.

Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk. Peter Warren is a general assignment reporter for the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at [email protected]. Peter previously lived in Dallas ...

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 ...