On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are "broken up" after their years of service. It begins with a ...

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Underway during carrier airwing qualifications in the Northern Puerto Rican Operations Area, 10 December 1996. (Photo: PH2c Scott A. Moak, USN. via U.S. Navy from the ...

The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), which had been docked in Philadelphia since 2007, began its final voyage Thursday. It moved south through the Delaware River, hooked up to a ship and moved out to ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) left Philadelphia Thursday for its final voyage. The ship will sail down to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled.

The former USS John F. Kennedy departed ... "Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier ...

(Tribune News Service) — The decommissioned aircraft carrier formerly known as the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) has begun its final journey, departing from its long-held berth in South ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...

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Finally, while this does mark the end of the line for CV-67, later this year the next USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) will join the fleet as the second Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered supercarrier.