Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) - Naval Cruise Book

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Where We Start From What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all oar exploring 0 Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time --Prom 'Pour Quartetsf by T. S. Eliot The history of Naval aviation had its begin- nings nearly a century ago with Professor Samuel P. Langley's pioneering efforts to develop an airplane, or aerodrome. Although his craft never flew, Lan- gley drew the attention of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt -- four years before the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk. In 1910 a Curtiss pusher plane was launched from the cruiser Birmingham. Two months later Eugene Ely, that plane's pilot, landed his craft on a platform erected on the stern of the cruiser Pennsyl- vania in San Francisco Bay. Ely's feat was the first arrested landing, snagging cables stretched across the deck and anchored with 50-pound bags. After the first World War, the Navy converted the coal-carrying ship Jupiter and two battle cruisers into aircraft carriers. Iupiter was renamed Langley and used for research and development. The two cruisers became the first true aircraft carriers, Lex- ington and Saratoga. More carriers followed: Ranger, Wasp and Hornet. The Essex-class carrier followed, and lasted until well beyond World War II. In the 1950's, USS Forrestal became the first true supercarrier. The wor1d's first nuclear-powered carrier, USS Enterprise, was commissioned in 1961. USS Abraham Lincoln is the N avy's fifth N imitz-class carrier, displacing well over 95,000 tons. The ship was commissioned on November 11, 1989, and takes its motto, Shall Not Perish, from President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The Lincoln Legend begins with the commissioning ofUSS Abraham Lincoln tCVN72J in 1989. It continues with Lincoln 's second major overseas deployment.