At first, it gave strong consideration to converting Hyuga and Ise, two of its older battleships into aircraft carriers.

By 1943 it was clear that battleships and aircraft carriers had very different roles. Assigned to a carrier force, both Hyuga and Ise could contribute a marginal number of planes.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

President Biden announced the names of new Navy aircraft carriers: USS William J. Clinton and USS George W. Bush, which will ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way ... especially docked alongside the battleship USS North Carolina in Wilmington, not far from town where the Wright brothers made ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake will ...