Like a lot of Navy lore, the details are in dispute. But Jere Cordell, of San Diego, swears the beastly carrier USS Nimitz won an impromptu drag race against slender cruisers a half-century ago off ...

Ofelia Figueroa, second from left, watches as her husband's ship, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, leaves from Coronado, near San Diego, Monday, March 3, 2003. The ship was deployed to support the ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) conducts a replenishment-at-sea, flight operations and an strike group integration exercise in the U.S. 7th fleet area of operations. Nimitz is ...

After decades of faithful service to the United States Navy, it is time for the USS Nimitz to return to its homeport. What is almost certainly the final deployment of the oldest active nuclear-powered ...

The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier and its crew will be home for Christmas, scheduled to pull in at Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., on Dec. 16, the Navy said Friday. The Nimitz, flagship of ...

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) arrives in Guam for a scheduled port visit, Aug. 17, 2025. George Washington returned to Guam for a port visit Dec. 1, 2025. US Navy photo ...

Naval Air Crewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Oliver Coric, a sailor attached to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC 25) Detachment 6, right, talks to sailor from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense ...

The USS Nimitz arrived in Hawaii on Saturday, returning to American waters for the first time since the aircraft carrier deployed from its homeport at Naval Base Kitsap, Wash., in March. As it arrived ...

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...

U.S. sailors conduct maintenance on an F/A-18E Super Hornet aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, September 2024. (U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy has deployed a salvage vessel to comb ...

USS Abraham Lincoln serves as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Three with Carrier Air Wing Nine. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS O’Kane, USS Spruance, and USS Frank E. Peterson Jr.