Two recent aircraft carriers—each named USS Enterprise—would have made memorable museum ships. For various reasons, neither could be saved.

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 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 ...

U.S. Navy’s Iconic Enterprise Nuclear Carrier Set for Dismantling in Alabama, Freeing Shipyard Space and Cutting Costs by $1 Billion The U.S. Navy has officially signed off on a historic contract that ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Years after it was decommissioned, the U.S. Navy has announced the final fate of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The former USS Enterprise (CVN 65) will be ...

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 ...

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.