John F Kennedy (CV 67) - Naval Cruise Book

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SHIP STATISTICS Keel laid: October 22, 1964 Christening: May 27, 1967 Commissioning: September 7, 1968 Building Cost: $187,000,000 (1965 dollars) Replacment Cost: approximately $4,000,000,000,000 (1993 dollars) Horsepower: over 200,000 Speed: approximately 30 Knots (35 mph Length overall: 1,051 1 2 feet Breadth at flight deck: 252 feet at widest point Height (keel to mast top): 23-story building Area of flight deck: 4.56 acres Displacement: 80,000 tons fully loaded Weight of rudders: Nearly 24 tons each Number of crew (including Air Wing): 5,100 Meals served aboard daily: 15,000+ Dining areas: 2 enlisted mess decks, 1 CPO mess, 2 officers ' messe Captain ' s yailty, flag mess PayroU: +$65,000,000 year ($2,740,000 per payday) Cost to operate U ' $30,000,000 a year

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•rd. In 1983. as a result of growing crisis in Beirut, janon, KENNEDY was called upon to support ef- forts there that defined ship ' s operations into the next year. Awards received by the ship during that period included a ninth Battle E, the Silver Anchor award for retention, the RADM Flatley award for safety, and the Battenburg Cup for being the overall best ship in the Atlantic Fleet. KENNEDY spent the winter of 1984 in drydock at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a minor overhaul. In 1 985, the ship received a fifth Golden Anchor retention award and several departmental efficiency awards. While in the shipyard, the ship was also awarded the inaugural Department of Defense Phoenix Award, sig- nifying a level of maintenance excellence above all other Department of Defense components world-wide. In July 1986, KENNEDY served as the centerpiece for a vast international naval armada during the Interna- tional Naval Review in honor of the 1 00th Anniversary and Rededication of the Statue of Liberty. KENNEDY then departed for the Mediterranean in August 1986 and returned in March 1987. After a brief shipyard period. Kennedy visited Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and then Portland, Maine, marking the first visit of an aircraft carrier to that city. In November 1 987, KENNEDY ' S flight deck crew trapped their 200,000th aircraft. KENNEDY departed Norfolk, Virginia, for her 1 2th major deployment to the Mediterranean in August [1988. On January 4, 1989, while conducting routine operations in international waters, F-14s from the em- j barked air wing shot down two Libyan MIG-23s that were approaching the battle group in a hostile manner. In the spring of 1 989, the ship entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a short industrial period, and KENNEDY spent the remainder of 1989 honing battle readiness in preparation for deployment. KENNEDY also visited Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and paid a second visit to Portland, Maine. After spending the first half of 1 990 participating in a variety of exercises, KENNEDY paid visits to New York for Fleet Week ' 90 and Boston for the Fourth of luly. In August, with just four days ' notice. Big John deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield. KENNEDY entered the Red Sea in September 1990 and became the flagship of the Commander, Red Sea Battle Force. On January 16. 1991. aircraft from the ship ' s CanierAir Wing THREE began Operation Desert Storm with attacks on Iraqi forces. The ship launched 114 strikes and 2,895 sorties, with the aircrews of Carrier Air Wing THREE flying 1 1 ,263 combat hours and delivering more than 3.5 million pounds of ord- nance in the conflict. After the cease-flre. KENNEDY transited the Suez Canal for the fourth time in seven months and began her journey home. Big John arrived in homeport Norfolk on March 28. 1991, to the greatest homecoming cel- ebration and outpouring of public support since World War II. KENNEDY then entered a four-month shipyard re- stricted availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The ship departed the shipyard at the end of September 1 99 1 with extensive repairs and maintenance accomplished on engineering systems, flight deck systems and equip- ment. Additionally the ship was ready to handle the F A- 18 Hornet aircraft to replace the A-7E Corsair ll ' s that had flown on their last deployment from the deck of Kennedy. The 1992-93 deployment nu,. ' Kennedy ' s 14th to the Mediterranean area. The deployment was driven principally by turmoil in former Yugoslavia and surges of continuing conflict with Iraq. The ship conducted multiple exercises with the armed forces of Mediterra- nean littoral nations, hosted large numbers of visitors in port and at sea, and spent substantial operating time in the Adriatic Sea. USS JOHN F KENNEDY expects to undergo a two- year-long comprehensive overhaul in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard after return from deployment. Following the overhaul. KENNEDY expects to change homeport from Norfolk, Virginia, to Mayport, Florida. %S)Li o!. cv-ei

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Number of anchors: 2 (30 tons each) Length of anchor chains (each link weighs 360 pounds): - 1080 feet (12 shots at 15 fathoms per shot) Screws: 4 (5-bIaded. 21 feet high, weigh 69.000 pounds) Aircraft elevators: (3 starboard side, 1 port side) - 4,000 square feet area each - 100,000 pounds + carrying capacity - 10 operating speeds Catapults (Numbers 1, 2, 4 are Model C-13-0; number 3 is C-13-1.) End Speed (average aircraft launch speed) - 140 knots Lengths: 1 - 264 ' 10 2 - 264 ' 10 3 - 324 ' 10 4 - 264 ' 10 Traps (aircraft landings) since commissioning - 250,000+ Fuel capacity: DFM t-76 (ship ' s fuel) - 2,400,000 gallons JP-5 F-44 (aircraft fuel) - 1,922,024 gallons Fresh water making capacity: +400,000 gallons per day Electricity: +4,000,000 watts (enough to power a small city) Uuildin; Ar!hougUJvE fT?6¥ „ , the aircraiTofcg5rHer Air three NATO Sea SparroV Virid8n-Phaliinv Gfiw ri which are «tationeH Jfrffnii defcnsFvc«i»vefage. TheNSSMS ises a n to the Sparri» jnissile carried hv-manv ' n ciws is a -- ' -- ■ f ' iimirr u. t iJ-4tet fX0IS»-rJ?