The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

In his last week in office, U.S. President Joe Biden has named two aircraft carriers being built after former presidents – ...

While not the first aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) has the distinction of being the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier. Converted in 1920 from the ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, leaders of the United States Navy, such as Admiral Marc Mitscher, dreamed up a new ...

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

The 1,052-foot-long ship, which has been housed at the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility since 2008, is making ...

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its ...

"Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally ...

A decommissioned aircraft carrier slated to leave Philadelphia will now stay for another day after plans to move it were ...

Kennedy, commissioned in 1968, was the first to be named for the 35th President of the United States and the last "conventionally powered" aircraft carrier built by the Navy, a Naval Sea Systems ...