The
Kitty Hawk by ET2 Darren Drake |
| The USS Kitty hawk had its keel laid into place on
Dec. 27th, 1956.
Three and one half years later, on May 21st, 1960
,the Kitty Hawk was launched by the New York Shipbuilding
Corporation in Camden, New Jersey.
After nearly a year
of rigorous testing to see if she was capable to be a fighting vessel,
the USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned into the Navy, April, 29th 1961. Her
first captain of the Kitty Hawk was Captain W. F. Bringle.
The following
information is just from memory and may be wrong, however, the Kitty Hawk
is 1032 feet long, has four engines, weighs 80,000 lbs, travels at a max
speed of about 38 knots, carries about eighty aircraft and has a crew
of around 6,000 sailors.
At its time of launching, the Kitty Hawk
was the largest ship ever built.
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Photo from ET2 Darren Drake
stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk
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