See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake ...
Commissioned in September 1968, the warship “conducted 18 deployments including to ... later this year the next USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) will join the fleet as the second Gerald R.
A new USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), which launched in 2019, is expected to be delivered to the Navy this year.
Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are "broken up" after their years of service. It begins with a ...