YOKOSUKA, Japan – The oldest active ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, made its final departure from Japan on Wednesday to be decommissioned after nearly half a century ...

The dismantling of the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in service with the US Navy, USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63).

BREMERTON, Wash. — The fate of the former USS Kitty Hawk — a part of Bremerton's iconic waterfront of mothballed ships for more than eight years — has been determined. The Kitty Hawk (CV ...

For the next 12 years, it sat with other retired ships in Puget Sound, Wash. As is often the case, the men — and, starting in 1994, women — who served on the Kitty Hawk through the years came ...

The fate of the former USS Kitty Hawk — a part of Bremerton's iconic waterfront of mothballed ships for more than eight years — has been determined. The Kitty Hawk (CV 63) will be disposed ...

The storied aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk -- a ship that served from Vietnam through the second Iraq war -- is heading for the scrapyard. The ship, which began its final sea voyage in January ...

Aided by tugboats, the decommissioned USS Kitty Hawk left Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton on a trip that will conclude at a ship-breaking facility in Brownsville, Texas, according to a Facebook ...

as the ships are too big to transit the Panama Canal. Kitty Hawk’s steam boilers and turbines are no longer operational, so the ship must be moved by tugboat. The trip from Bremerton to ...

It was been in Bremerton's mothball fleet, formally known as the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, for 12 years. For the Kitty Hawk, there is some pressure because of what grows under the hull.

When the USS Kitty Hawk Veterans Association held a reunion in Nashville at the end of October, one thing was on everyone's mind: The ship was going to scrapped despite years of efforts and ...

The two sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk are part of the deck department team, whose nearly 90 members help get fuel for the ship and its hungry crew. At least twice a week, the aircraft carrier ties ...

For the next 12 years, it would sit with other retired ships in Puget Sound, Wash. As is often the case, the men — and, starting in 1994, women — who served on the Kitty Hawk through the years ...