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USS Kitty Hawk (CV- 6. Wikipedia. USS Kitty Hawk. History. United States. Name: USS Kitty Hawk.

Namesake: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina[1]Awarded: 1 October 1. Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation[2]Laid down: 2.

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December 1. 95. 6[2]Launched: 2. May 1. 96. 0[2]Sponsored by: Camilla F.

Mc. Elroy, wife of Neil H. Mc. Elroy[1]Commissioned: 2. April 1. 96. 1[2]Decommissioned: 1. May 2. 00. 9[2]Reclassified: CV- 6. April 1. 97. 3[1]Struck: 2. October 2. 01. 7Homeport: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard[2]Nickname(s): "Battle Cat",[3] "Shitty Kitty"[4]Status: Stricken, to be disposed of. General characteristics.

Class and type: Kitty Hawk- classaircraft carrier. Displacement: 6. 1,3. Length: 1,0. 68. 9 ft (3. LOA[2]Beam: 2. 82 ft (8.

Draft: 3. 8 ft (1. Propulsion: Westinghouse geared steam turbines, eight Foster Wheeler steam boilers, four shafts; 2. MW)Speed: 3. 3 knots (6. Complement: 5,6. 24 officers and men[2]Armament: RIM- 7 Sea Sparrow surface- to- air missiles, 2 RIM- 1. RAM, 2 Phalanx CIWS Automated Anti- Missile/Aircraft Defenses. Aircraft carried: The supercarrier. USS Kitty Hawk (CV- 6.

CVA- 6. 3, is the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was both the first and last active ship of her class, and the last oil- fired aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy. Kitty Hawk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, on 2.

December 1. 95. 6. The ship was launched on 2. May 1. 96. 0, sponsored by Mrs. Camilla F. Mc. Elroy, wife of Defense Secretary Neil H. Watch The Paper Will Be Blue Dailymotion. Mc. Elroy. Kitty Hawk was launched by flooding her drydock; the conventional slide down method was ruled out because of her mass and the risk that she might hit the Philadelphia shore on the far side of the Delaware River. The ship was commissioned 2.

April 1. 96. 1, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain William F. Bringle in command. With the decommissioning of Independence on 3. September 1. 99. 8, Kitty Hawk became the United States warship with the second- longest active status, after the sailing ship USS Constitution. Enterprise passed her in 2.

First Navy Jack.)[5]For 1. Watch Kisses And Caroms Online Hollywoodreporter. Kitty Hawk was the forward- deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan.

In October 2. 00. George Washington. Kitty Hawk then returned to the United States and had her decommissioning ceremony on 3. January 2. 00. 9.

She was officially decommissioned on 1. May 2. 00. 9 after almost 4.

Kitty Hawk was replaced by George H. W. Bush. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2.

October 2. 01. 7. Service history[edit]1. President Kennedy and Governor Brown of California review a fleet demonstration aboard Kitty Hawk on 6 June 1. Following a shakedown in the Western Atlantic, Kitty Hawk departed Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia on 1. August 1. 96. 1. After a brief stop at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she embarked the Secretary of the Brazilian Navy for a demonstration of exercise at sea with five Brazilian destroyers, the attack carrier rounded Cape Horn on 1 October. She steamed into Valparaíso, Chile on 1.

October and then sailed two days later for Peru, arriving in Callao on 2. October where she entertained the President of Peru. At San Diego, Admiral George W. Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations, landed on her deck 1. November to witness antisubmarine demonstrations by Henry B.

Wilson and Blueback, a Terrier missile demonstration by Topeka and air demonstrations by Kitty Hawk. Kitty Hawk entered San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 2. November 1. 96. 1 for alterations. Following operations out of San Diego, she sailed from San Francisco on 1. September 1. 96. 2. Kitty Hawk joined the United States Seventh Fleet on 7 October 1. Midway as the flagship.

After participating in the Philippine Republic Aviation Week Air Show, Kitty Hawk steamed out of Manila Harbor on 3. November 1. 96. 2, and welcomed Admiral Harry D. Felt, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, for a demonstration of modern naval weapons on 3 December. The ship visited Hong Kong early in December and returned to Japan, arriving at Yokosuka on 2 January 1. In conjunction with Commander, Carrier Division Seven, Kitty Hawk carried out several exercises in January and February 1. On 4 January 1. 96. Operation Checkertail saw Kitty Hawk and three other attack aircraft carriers launch practice airstrikes against the Okinawa Air Defense Command.

From 2. 7 January – 2 February 1. Picture Window III' saw 'foreign aircraft' intercepted and visually identified in the Northern Japan area. Though the official ship's papers released in 2. Soviet Far Eastern Military District or Soviet Naval Aviation. From 1. 6–1. 9 February 1.

Exercise 'Red Wheel,' was conducted around Southern Japan also under the direction of Commander, Carrier Division Seven. It aimed to improve the United States Seventh Fleet's ability to conduct conventional and nuclear warfare while maintaining defense against air and submarine attack. It also aimed to evaluate the capability of 'the HUK [Hunter- Killer] Group' to protect two CVA Task Groups. During these exercises, the ship visited Kobe, Beppu and Iwakuni before returning to San Diego on 2 April 1. On 6 June 1. 96. 3, President John F. Kennedy, with top civilian and military leaders, boarded Kitty Hawk to witness a carrier task force weapons demonstration off the California coast.

Addressing the men of the task group from Kitty Hawk, President Kennedy told them that, as in the past, control of the seas still means security, peace and ultimate victory. He later wrote to President and Madame Chiang Kai- shek who had witnessed a similar demonstration on board Constellation: "I hope you were impressed as I was, on my visit to Kitty Hawk, with the great force for peace or war, which these mighty carriers and their accompanying escorts provide, helping to preserve the freedom of distant nations in all parts of the world."Film director John Frankenheimer filmed shots for the movie Seven Days in May on board the vessel in 1. Following a series of strike exercises and tactics reaching along the California coast and off Hawaii, Kitty Hawk again sailed for the Far East. While approaching Japan, she learned an assassin had shot President Kennedy.

Flags were at half mast as she entered Sasebo Harbor on 2. November 1. 96. 3, the day of the President's funeral and, as senior ship present, she had the sad honor of firing memorial salutes.