USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

The USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier of the United States Navy. Starting in late 2011, The USS Nimitz will be stationed at Naval Station Everett in Everett, Washington. It is named after Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

It is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln. Its length is an amazing 1063 feet or 333 meters. It has four steam catapults that can speed up a 100,000 pound plane to 160 mph in 100 meters. It can launch early warning planes, F/A-18 hornets and Super Hornet fighter-bomber aircraft. It is powered by two nuclear reactors and can stay at sea for 24 years without refueling although refueling needs to be done carefully and only in special naval bases. It weighs 100,000 tons. It carries a maximum of 130 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets or 85-90 other planes.

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) Media

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  Crest worn by USS Nimitz CVN-68

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  Catherine Nimitz Lay christens Nimitz on 13 May 1972

• USS Nimitz Air Power Demonstration

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  Nimitz operating in the English Channel with HMS Blake in 1975

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  Nimitz on her first deployment in 1976 alongside nuclear-powered cruisers California and South Carolina

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  Nimitz (right) alongside HMS Ark Royal at Norfolk Naval Station in August 1978

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  Wreck of an EA-6B Prowler after it crashed during a night landing, 1981

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  Nimitz (left) cruising with Independence and Port Royal in the Sea of Japan in September 1997

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  Monitor showing data about Nimitz

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  Lt. Cmdr. David Bynum, a Navy chaplain aboard Nimitz, passes out happy face sponge balls to the students of CSI High School for the Deaf in Chennai, India during a community relations visit in July 2007