Carl Vinson (CVN 70) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS CARL VINSON — 15

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San Francisco ' s Own 14 LS CARL yJNSON

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Builder Launch- Coinmissione Total Cost. . . USS CARL VINSON . STATISTICS Propulsion Speed Number of reactors Lenjfth over flight deck ... Breadth at flight deck Area of flight deck I Number of aircraft elevators , Area of aircraft elevators Height keel to mast Compartments and spaces Anchors Weight of anchor chain links Combat load displacement Propellers Number of telephones Weight of rudders Capacity of air conditioning plants Daily capacity of distilling plants . Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia October March 15, 1980 arch 13, 1982 1.3 billion dollars with enougM HS of normal operations ..... Thirty-plus knots J Two 1,092 feet 252 feet 4.5 acres Four ,. About 4,000 sq ft each 244 feet (equal to a 24 story building) 3,360 Two (each weighing thirty tons) , 360 pounds each 95,000 tons Four at 21 feet high and 66,200 pounds each r Number of telephones More than 2000 Weight of rudders 65.5 tons each Capacity of air conditioning plants 2,520 tons (enough to serve more than 800 homes) Daily capacity of distilling plants 400,000 gallons of fresh water (enough for the daily needs of more than 2,000 homes) Estimated number of tubes, transistors and diodes Over one billion All technical manuals, stacked, would be higher than the Washington Monument (555 feet) — USS CARL VINSON