Key Points and Summary - USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier and a U.S. Navy icon. Commissioned in 1961, the “Big E” tracked John Glenn’s Friendship 7, enforced the ...

A small boat passes in front of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as it is anchored of the coast of Faliro, near Athens, Greece, on March 29, 2012. File photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP A ...

The U.S. Navy vessel known as CVN 65 has already ceased to be the USS Enterprise. On Mobile’s waterfront it will cease to be a ship, or even a hull. That’s the outlook since late Friday, when the U.S.

Even though aircraft carriers have been around for decades, many can't help but marvel at the unimaginable vastness of the vessels. They are floating military cities that can park off the coast of ...

The US Navy awarded a contract to dismantle, recycle, and dispose of carrier Enterprise , shown here on deployment in 2007. (US Navy) US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded NorthStar Maritime ...