As the legendary USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is dismantled, its legacy—including two near-catastrophic grounding incidents—serves ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Commissioned in 1961, it revolutionized ...

The world’s first nuclear-powered carrier, will be dismantled in Mobile, Alabama by 2029 for $536.7 million—marking the symbolic end of an era in U.S. naval history. Preparations are underway to ...

The U.S. Navy is proposing a new plan for dismantling the decommissioned USS Enterprise that would not use the Hanford site next to Richland for its nuclear reactor compartments. Trench 94 in the ...

The US Navy’s history is replete with tales of mighty ships that have shaped the course of naval warfare. However, some of these ships, despite their significant impact, met an untimely end, being ...

It’s a new feeling for 26-year old pipefitter Brett Denson. He learned his trade as an apprentice while helping to build the aircraft carriers USS Gerald R. Ford and USS John F. Kennedy in Newport ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A major milestone is at hand for Hampton Roads' largest industrial employer. Newport News Shipbuilding hosted the keel laying ceremony for the nation's next Navy aircraft carrier ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WDAM) - America’s only builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers celebrated Saturday the ceremonial keel-laying of aircraft carrier Enterprise at its Newport News Shipbuilding ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The next nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to be constructed will bear the names of two living presidents. President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the next Gerald R.