Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier (active 1968?2007)
USS
John F. Kennedy
(CV-67)
|
Class overview
|
Name
| John F. Kennedy
-class
|
Builders
| Newport News Shipbuilding
|
Operators
|
United States Navy
|
Preceded by
| Kitty Hawk
class
and
Enterprise
class
|
Succeeded by
| Nimitz
class
|
In commission
| 7 September 1968 ? 1 August 2007
|
History
|
United States
|
Name
| John F. Kennedy
|
Namesake
| John F. Kennedy
|
Awarded
| 30 April 1964
[3]
|
Builder
| Newport News Shipbuilding
[3]
|
Laid down
| 22 October 1964
[3]
|
Launched
| 27 May 1967
[3]
|
Sponsored by
| Caroline Kennedy
[4]
|
Christened
| 27 May 1967
|
Commissioned
| 7 September 1968
[3]
|
Decommissioned
| 23 March 2007
[3]
|
Refit
| 1984
|
Stricken
| 16 October 2009
[3]
|
Identification
| |
Motto
| |
Nickname(s)
| "Big John" (unofficially: "Bldg 67", "Can Opener", "Jack the Tin Can Killer")
[1]
|
Badge
| |
General characteristics
|
Type
| Aircraft carrier
[5]
|
Displacement
|
- 60,728 tons light
- 82,655 tons full load
- 21,927 tons deadweight
|
Length
| 1,052 ft (321 m) overall, 990 ft (300 m) waterline
|
Beam
| 252 ft (77 m) extreme, 130 ft (40 m) waterline
|
Height
| 192 ft (59 m) from top of the mast to the waterline
|
Draft
| 36 ft (11 m) maximum, 37 ft (11 m) limit
|
Installed power
|
- 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 1,200 PSI
- 280,000 shp (210 MW)
|
Propulsion
|
- 4 × steam turbines
- 4 shafts
|
Speed
| 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
[6]
|
Capacity
| 5,000+
|
Complement
| 3,297 officers and men (without jet commands & crews)
|
Armament
| |
Aircraft carried
| 80+
|
USS
John F. Kennedy
(CV-67)
(formerly
CVA-67
), the only ship of her class, is an
aircraft carrier
, formerly of the
United States Navy
. Considered a
supercarrier
,
[4]
she is a variant of the
Kitty Hawk
class
, and the last
conventionally-powered
carrier built for the Navy,
[5]
as all carriers since have had
nuclear propulsion
. Commissioned in 1968, the ship was named after
John F. Kennedy
, the 35th president of the United States.
John F. Kennedy
was originally
designated a CVA
, for
fixed-wing
attack carrier, however the designation was changed to CV, for
fleet carrier
.
After nearly 40 years of service,
John F. Kennedy
was
decommissioned
on 1 August 2007. She is berthed at the
NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility
in
Philadelphia
, formerly the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
, and, until late 2017, was available for donation as a
museum
and memorial to a qualified organization.
[3]
[7]
In late 2017, the Navy revoked her "donation hold" status and designated her for dismantling.
[8]
She has been succeeded by the
Gerald R. Ford
-class
aircraft carrier
Pre-Commissioning Unit
John F. Kennedy
(CVN-79)
, laid down in July 2015, launched in October 2019, and scheduled to enter service in 2025.
Ship history
[
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]
Design and early years
[
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]
Designed under
Ship Characteristics Board
project SCB-127C,
[9]
the ship's
keel
was laid on inclined Shipway 8 by
Newport News Shipbuilding
on 22 October 1964. By 1965, the larger semi-submerged Shipway 11 became available, where final construction was completed.
[10]
The ship was
christened
27 May 1967 by
Jacqueline Kennedy
and her 9-year-old daughter,
Caroline
, two days short of what would have been President Kennedy's 50th birthday. The ship entered service 7 September 1968.
John F. Kennedy
is a modified version of the earlier
Kitty Hawk
-class
aircraft carriers
.
[4]
Originally scheduled to be the fourth
Kitty Hawk
-class carrier, the ship received so many modifications during construction she formed her own class.
[5]
The ship was originally ordered as a nuclear carrier, using the
A3W reactor
, but converted to conventional propulsion after construction had begun.
[9]
The island is somewhat different from that of the
Kitty Hawk
class, with angled funnels to direct smoke and gases away from the flight deck.
John F. Kennedy
is also 17 feet (5.2 m) shorter than the
Kitty Hawk
class.
[9]
After an ORI (operational readiness inspection) conducted by Commander,
Carrier Division Two
,
John F. Kennedy
left for the Mediterranean in April 1969. The ship reached
Rota
, Spain on the morning of 22 April 1969 and relieved
USS
Forrestal
. Rear Admiral Pierre N. Charbonnet, Commander, Carrier Striking Forces, Sixth Fleet, and Commander, Carrier Striking Unit 60.1.9, shifted his flag to
John F. Kennedy
. The turnover complete by nightfall, the carrier, escorted by destroyers, transited the
Strait of Gibraltar
at the start of the mid watch on 22 April. The next day,
John F. Kennedy
refueled from
USS
Marias
, and acquired the company of a
Soviet
Kotlin-class destroyer
(Pennant No. 383).
1970s
[
edit
]
John F. Kennedy
'
s maiden voyage, and several of her subsequent voyages, were on deployments to the
Mediterranean
during much of the 1970s to help deal with the steadily deteriorating situation in the Middle East. During the 1970s
John F. Kennedy
was upgraded to handle the
F-14 Tomcat
and the
S-3 Viking
.
John F. Kennedy
was involved in the Navy response to the
Yom Kippur War
in the Middle East in October 1973, with her actions and the larger U.S. Navy picture being described in
Elmo Zumwalt
's book
On Watch
.
[11]
In 1974, she won the
Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award
for the Atlantic Fleet.
On 20 June 1975
John F. Kennedy
was the target of possible arson, suffering eight fires, with no injuries, while at port in
Norfolk, Virginia
.
[12]
On 22 November 1975,
John F. Kennedy
collided with the
cruiser
Belknap
, severely damaging the smaller ship. As a result of the collision with
John F. Kennedy
'
s overhanging deck, JP-5 fuel lines were ruptured spraying fuel over an adjacent catwalk, and fires ensued aboard both ships.
Belknap
'
s superstructure was gutted almost to the main deck, and seven of her crew killed. Aboard
John F. Kennedy
, smoke inhalation claimed the life of Yeoman 2nd Class David A. Chivalette of VF-14, CVW-1.
|
|
On 14 September 1976, while conducting a nighttime
underway replenishment
100 miles (160 km) north of Scotland, the destroyer
Bordelon
lost control and collided with
John F. Kennedy
, resulting in such severe damage to the destroyer that she was removed from service in 1977. Earlier the same day, one F-14 Tomcat, following a problem with the catapult, fell off of the flight deck of
John F. Kennedy
, with
AIM-54 Phoenix
missiles in international waters, off the coast Scotland. Both crew members ejected and landed on the deck, injured but alive.
[13]
A naval race (surface and submarine) followed between the Soviet Navy and U.S. Navy to get back not only the plane (because of its
weapon system
), but also its missiles. After a prolonged search, the U.S. Navy retrieved the aircraft and its missiles.
[
citation needed
]
In 1979
John F. Kennedy
underwent her first year-long overhaul, which was completed in 1980.
[14]
While the carrier was at
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
, Virginia for the overhaul, arson attacks were carried out on the ship on two occasions. On 9 April 1979, she experienced five fires which killed one shipyard worker and injured 34 others, and on 5 June 1979 the carrier was the target of two more fires; no one was injured in the latter incident.
[12]
[15]
In 1979 she won her second
Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award
.
[
citation needed
]
1980s
[
edit
]
On 4 August 1980,
John F. Kennedy
left Norfolk, Virginia and voyaged to the Mediterranean Sea.
[16]
On 4 January 1982,
John F. Kennedy
, with Carrier Air Wing Three (AC), sailed as the flagship for Carrier Group Four (CCG-4) from Norfolk, Va. on her ninth deployment, and her first visit to the Indian Ocean after port visits to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Malaga, Spain, and transiting the
Suez Canal
. In her time in the Indian Ocean
John F. Kennedy
conducted her only port visit to Perth/Fremantle, Western Australia, anchoring in Gage Roads on 19 March 1982 for a R&R visit, departing on 25 March back to the Indian Ocean. During this time
John F. Kennedy
played host to the first visit of the Somali head of state. Her cruise ended with port visits to Mombasa, Kenya and Toulon, France, and another visit to Malaga, Spain before returning home on 14 July 1982.
In October 1983
John F. Kennedy
was diverted to
Beirut
, Lebanon from her planned Indian Ocean deployment, after the
Beirut barracks bombing
killed 241 U.S. military personnel taking part in the
Multinational Force in Lebanon
, and spent the rest of that year and early 1984 patrolling the region. On 4 December 1983 ten
A-6
aircraft from
John F. Kennedy
along with A-6 and
A-7
aircraft from
USS
Independence
took part in a bombing raid over Beirut, in response to two U.S. F-14 aircraft being fired upon the previous day. The Navy lost two aircraft during the raid: an A-7E from
Independence
and an A-6E from
John F. Kennedy
were shot down by
SAMs
. The A-7E pilot was picked up by a fishing boat, but the A-6E pilot Lt. Mark Lange died after ejecting and the B/N Lt.
Robert "Bobby" Goodman
was taken prisoner and released on 3 January 1984.
[4]
In 1984 the ship was
drydocked
at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a one-and-a-half-year complex overhaul and upgrades.
In 1985
John F. Kennedy
received the initial awarding of the
Department of Defense
Phoenix Award for Maintenance Excellence for having the best maintenance department in the entire Department of Defense.
[17]
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|
|
Setting sail in July 1986,
John F. Kennedy
participated in the
International Naval Review
to help mark the
Re-dedication of the Statue of Liberty
.
John F. Kennedy
served as the
flagship
for the
armada
before departing on her eleventh overseas deployment to the Mediterranean in August – highlighted by multiple Freedom of Navigation exercises in the
Gulf of Sidra
, and operations off of the coast of Lebanon as a response to increasing terrorist activities and U.S. citizens being taken hostage in Beirut. The ship returned to Norfolk, Virginia in March 1987 and was dry-docked a second time for fifteen months for critical upgrades and major repairs.
In August 1988
John F. Kennedy
departed on her twelfth overseas deployment. During this deployment, a pair of
MiG-23 Flogger
fighter aircraft
from Libya approached the carrier task force, which was 81 miles (130 km) off the shore of Libya near the declared Libyan territorial waters of the Gulf of Sidra.
John F. Kennedy
launched two F-14 Tomcats from VF-32 "Fighting Swordsmen" to intercept the incoming MiGs. The U.S. planes were sent to escort the MiGs away from the task force. During the course of the intercept, the MiGs were determined to be hostile and
were both shot down
.
1990s
[
edit
]
John F. Kennedy
returned to the U.S. in time to participate in
Fleet Week
in New York and
Independence Day
celebrations in
Boston
, Massachusetts before receiving an "All-hands" recall on 10 August 1990, for
Operation Desert Shield
. The ship was empty of fuel, and ordnance and equipment as she was ready to join the yards for some SRA maintenance. Once the Warning order was issued, the ship went into 24-hour supplies replenishment procedures. She took on all the supplies and equipment she had just been offloading. She took on additional fuel and ordnance while crossing the
Atlantic Ocean
. She departed the United States combat ready faster than any ship had accomplished since the
Vietnam War
. She departed on 15 August 1990, and became the flagship for the commander of the Red Sea Battle Force. At midnight on 17 January 1991
John F. Kennedy
'
s Carrier Air Wing 3 commenced the first strike operations against Iraqi forces as part of
Operation Desert Storm
. Between the commencement of the operation and the cease-fire,
John F. Kennedy
launched 114
airstrikes
and nearly 2,900
sorties
against Iraq, which delivered over 3.5 million pounds of
ordnance
. On 27 February 1991 President
George H. W. Bush
declared a cease-fire in Iraq, and ordered all U.S. forces to stand down.
John F. Kennedy
was relieved, and began the long journey home by transiting the
Suez Canal
. She arrived in Norfolk on 28 March 1991.
While at Norfolk the ship was placed on a four-month selective restricted-availability period as shipyard workers carried out maintenance. Extensive repairs to the flight deck, maintenance and engineering systems were made. Additionally, the ship was refitted to handle the new
F/A-18C/D Hornet
.
With the upgrades completed,
John F. Kennedy
departed on her 14th deployment to the Mediterranean, assisting several task forces with workup exercises in anticipation of intervention in
Yugoslavia
. When
John F. Kennedy
returned she was sent to the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
, where she underwent a two-year extensive overhaul. Upon completion of the overhaul the ship was transferred to the
Mayport Naval Station
near
Jacksonville, Florida
, which remained the ship's home port.
On 1 October 1995,
John F. Kennedy
was designated to be an operational reserve carrier and
Naval Reserve Force
ship with a combined full-time active duty and part-time Naval Reserve crew complement, assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
John F. Kennedy
would be available to deploy with either an active or reserve carrier air wing when mobilized in support of urgent operational requirements. In this capacity,
John F. Kennedy
'
s new primary function would be to provide a surge capability, and in peacetime, to support training requirements. She would participate in routine fleet exercises, aviator carrier qualifications, and battle group training.
[4]
The impetus for this initiative was post-Cold War defense spending in the mid-1990s, however, the Naval Reserve was never adequately funded to accomplish major maintenance actions for
John F. Kennedy
, further exacerbated by additional defense cutbacks that eliminated Carrier Air Wing Reserve 30 and the downgrading of Carrier Air Wing Reserve 20 to a non-deployable
Tactical Support Wing
and the return of many of the Reserve's front-line combat aircraft to the active duty force. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States, the Operational Reserve Carrier concept was discontinued and
John F. Kennedy
was returned to the active duty fleet and placed back in the same maintenance rotation as active duty carriers.
John F. Kennedy
made a high-profile visit to
Dublin
, Ireland during an Atlantic deployment in 1996. Here, more than 10,000 people were invited to tour the ship at anchor in Dublin Bay. The visit was also intended to honor two personalities who had made a great impact on history: John F. Kennedy, for whom the ship was named, and
Commodore
John Barry
, a native of
County Wexford
, Ireland who played an instrumental role in the early years of the United States Navy. Officers and crew from
John F. Kennedy
joined local military and civilian organizations in celebrating Barry's achievements at his statue in Crescent Quay,
Wexford
, and three F-14 Tomcat fighters flew at low level over the town.
Jean Kennedy Smith
, sister of John F. Kennedy, was the
U.S. ambassador to Ireland
at the time, and was among those who welcomed the ship to Ireland.
During her visit to Ireland, high winds in Dublin Bay caused the boarding pontoon to tear a large hole in
John F. Kennedy
'
s hull.
John F. Kennedy
'
s 15th Mediterranean deployment included two transits of the Suez Canal, and four months deployed in the
Persian Gulf
. One night in the Gulf two Iranian F-14's were flying low altitude at high speed heading toward the ship. The AEGIS cruiser
Vicksburg
acquired the jets on radar and warned them to turn away, which they did. She returned in time to participate in Fleet Week '98 in New York City.
Shortly before
John F. Kennedy
'
s 16th deployment, she became involved in a rescue mission when the tug
Gulf Majesty
foundered during
Hurricane Floyd
in mid-September 1999. The ship successfully rescued the crew of the vessel, then headed toward the Middle East, where she became the first U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call in
Al Aqabah
, Jordan, in the process playing host to the
King of Jordan
, before taking up station in support of
Operation Southern Watch
.
John F. Kennedy
was the only conventionally powered U.S. carrier underway at the end of 1999, arriving back at Mayport on 19 March 2000. After a brief period of maintenance (
Advanced combat direction system
was installed), the carrier sailed north to participate in 4 July International Naval Review, then headed to Boston for
Sail Boston 2000
.
[18]
The City of Boston arranged this independent event to take advantage of the transit of Tall sailing ships participating in
Operation Sail 2000
as they passed by from
New London, Connecticut
en route to their final port-of-call in
Portland, Maine
.
2000s
[
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]
During
John F. Kennedy
'
s last round of refits the ship became a testbed for an experimental system for the
Cooperative Engagement Capability
, a system that allowed
John F. Kennedy
to engage targets beyond original range.
In 2001, during a pre-deployment trial,
John F. Kennedy
was found to be severely deficient in some respects, especially those relating to air group operations; most problematic, two
aircraft catapults
and three aircraft elevators, which are used to lift aircraft from the hangar deck to and from the flight deck, were non-functional during inspection, and two boilers would not light. As a result, her captain and two department heads were relieved for cause.
As the
11 September attacks
of 2001 unfolded,
John F. Kennedy
and her battle group were ordered to support
Operation Noble Eagle
, establishing air security along the mid-Atlantic seaboard, including Washington, D.C.
John F. Kennedy
was released from Noble Eagle on 14 September 2001.
[4]
During the first six months of 2002,
John F. Kennedy
aircraft dropped 31,000 tons of ordnance on
Taliban
and
al Qaeda
targets in support of
Operation Enduring Freedom
.
[4]
In August 2002,
John F. Kennedy
visited the city of
Tarragona
in
Spain
.
[19]
In July 2004
John F. Kennedy
collided with a
dhow
in the Persian Gulf, leaving no survivors on the traditional Arab sailing boat.
[20]
After the incident the Navy relieved the commanding officer of
John F. Kennedy
. The carrier herself was unscathed, but two jet fighters on the deck were damaged when an F-14B Tomcat assigned to VF-103 slid into an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to VFA-81 damaging the wing of the F-14 as well as the upper section of the radome and forward windscreen of the F/A-18 as the ship made a hard turn to avoid the tiny vessel. A popular misconception is that
John F. Kennedy
'
s captain waited to make the turn at the last possible moment to recover aircraft critically low on fuel returning from airstrikes. The official review board determined this was not the case and the aircraft could have remained safely aloft until
John F. Kennedy
maneuvered to avoid the dhow.
[21]
John F. Kennedy
was the most costly carrier in the fleet to maintain and was due for an expensive overhaul; budget cutbacks and changing naval tactics
prompted the U.S. Navy to decide to retire her.
[22]
On 1 April 2005 the Navy formally announced that the carrier's scheduled 15-month overhaul had been cancelled.
[23]
U.S. Navy Command Master Chief Charles L. Dassance presents the ensign to U.S. Navy Capt. Todd A. Zecchin, commanding officer of USS
John F. Kennedy
, during the ship's decommissioning ceremony.
Before decommissioning she made a number of port calls to allow the public to "say farewell" to her, including a stop at her "homeport" Boston Harbor.
[24]
John F. Kennedy
also took part in the 2005 New York City Fleet Week festivities at the
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
.
[25]
She was decommissioned in
Mayport, Florida
on 23 March 2007.
[26]
The ship's unique in-port cabin, which was decorated by
Jacqueline Kennedy
with wood paneling, oil paintings, and rare artifacts, was disassembled, to be rebuilt at the
National Museum of Naval Aviation
at
Naval Air Station Pensacola
, Florida.
[27]
Ex-
John F. Kennedy
was towed to Norfolk, Virginia on 26 July 2007. She remained in Norfolk until a shoaled area near Pier 4 in Philadelphia could be dredged to enable the ship to safely dock. On 17 March 2008 at about 1700, she was seen leaving Norfolk Naval Station under tow of the tug
Atlantic Salvor
. On 22 March 2008 ex-
John F. Kennedy
arrived, with the afternoon high tide, at the
Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
in
Philadelphia
.
[28]
Retirement
[
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]
In November 2009, the Navy placed
John F. Kennedy
on donation hold for use as a museum and memorial.
[29]
A report in the
Boston Herald
newspaper on 26 November 2009 mentioned the possibility of bringing
John F. Kennedy
to the Boston, Massachusetts area, as a museum or memorial at no cost to the city, if desired.
[30]
In August 2010, two groups successfully passed into Phase II of the U.S. Navy Ship Donation Program:
[2]
On 4 January 2010,
Portland, Maine City Council
unanimously endorsed the efforts of the USS
John F. Kennedy
Museum while Gov.
John Baldacci
also offered his support.
[33]
One year later on 19 January 2011 the
Portland, Maine City Council
voted 9?0 to not continue with the project to bring the ship to Maine.
[34]
Plans as of September 2014 had the Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame working to secure Pier 2 of the
Naval Station Newport
. These developments come after the former
USS
Saratoga
(CV-60)
was sold for scrapping earlier after years of being moored in Newport.
[35]
[36]
With the advent of the nuclear carrier,
Kitty Hawk
and
John F. Kennedy
were the last two candidate carriers to become museum ships as they have conventional propulsion. Nuclear carriers, such as
Enterprise
and the
Nimitz
class
, require extensive deconstruction to remove their nuclear reactors during decommissioning, leaving them in an unsuitable condition for donation.
[37]
In October 2017, it was announced that
Kitty Hawk
would be disposed of by scrapping, leaving
John F. Kennedy
the last available carrier capable of conversion to a museum.
In late 2017, the Navy revoked
John F. Kennedy
'
s "donation hold" status and designated her for dismantling. There are still several groups, from Florida, Maine and Rhode Island, with the assistance of the USS
John F. Kennedy
Veteran's Association, hoping to persuade the Navy to reinstate the "donation hold" status, while they pursue the goal of obtaining her as a museum.
[8]
On 6 October 2021,
John F. Kennedy
and
Kitty Hawk
were sold for
one cent
each to International Shipbreaking Limited.
[38]
[39]
In popular culture
[
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]
The TV series
Supercarrier
was partially filmed on board the ship between September and November 1987, while the ship was undergoing a period of upkeep.
[4]
See also
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]
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]
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