In the next few days, I will show a gallery of 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
USS Chester William Nimitz, hull CVN-68, is the first carrier of the U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
Construction of the Nimitz was approved for the middle of fiscal year 1967, and on May 31, 1967, a construction contract was signed for the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia, usa, and on June 22, 1968, the keel laying began construction, and it was launched into the tank on May 13, 1972, and officially entered service in the United States Navy on May 3, 1975.
The ship was first incorporated into the Atlantic Fleet, home at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. In 1987, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was transferred from the Atlantic Fleet to join the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with its home port at Naval Base San Diego, California.
The NIMITZ aircraft carrier costs $725 to $850 million.
The United States, in honor of Chester William Nimitz, named the first aircraft carrier it built after his death.
