The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will soon arrive to the Port of Brownsville to be dismantled. The aircraft ...

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 ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the ...

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 ...

The USS JFK's departure was originally scheduled for Jan. 15, but was postponed because of high winds. Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, the USS JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed ...

"Big John," as it was affectionately nicknamed, was decommissioned in 2007 and has been in Philadelphia ever since. A new aircraft carrier named after JFK will enter service later this year.

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The next JFK The Kennedy namesake will live on in the ... tag — albeit $2 billion shy of the $13 billion first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford. Measuring 1,092 feet in length — only a few feet ...

A composite image shows the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, left, next to a photo illustration of the future Ford-class supercarrier bearing the same name.Joshua Karsten/US Navy ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...