USS Roosevelt (CVN 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE WHITE HOUSE waswimcrom August 5, 1981 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE CASPAR W. WEINBERGER The Secretary of Defense SUBJECT: Naming of the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier: CVN 71 I accept your recommendation on naming CVN 71 the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT. As you recall, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt prepared our Navy for the fight it faced in the Spanish American War. As President, Roosevelt pressed Congress every year for larger naval appropriations. By 1907 the sixteen battleships of the Atlantic fleet were the most powerful concentration of capital ships in the world: by the end of his term of office Roosevelt had succeeded in greatly increasing our Navy's power. I am confident that the addition of this fine ship to the fleet will help us secure naval superiority. TQMWQQV President Theodore Roosevelt addresses the officers and men aboard the Great White Fleet Flagship, USS CONNECTICUT, at Hampton Roads, following the fleet's famous round-the-world cruise in 1907-09. 5

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uttin . TR Together USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT QCVN-71l is the first aircraft carrier to be assembled in large sections, or modules. The process starts with the ship in pieces much like a plastic model. The pieces are prestaged in lay- dovvn areas, assembled into large modules, hoisted into place, and welded together. Many of the larger systems are installed in the modules while they are still in the laydovvn areas, thereby reduc- ing the need for cutting and rewelding access passages. Modular construction, made possible through the use of a huge gantry crane capable of lifting 900 tons, cut 16 months off TR's construction time. The innovative construction techniques employed in USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT CCVN-71l are now be- ing used to build ABRAHAM LINCOLN CCVN-72l and GEORGE WASHINGTON CCVN-73l. Modular construc- tion has proved its value, cut production time and changed the way aircraft carriers are built. At the completion of TR 's sea trials CAPT Parcells received the sideboard from the previous USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, a Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarine. From L to R, VADM W. H. Roden, Commander Naval Sea Systems Command, VADM R. F. Dunn, Commander Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet, CAPT P. W. Parcells, Commanding Officer, USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT KCVN-712, RADM D. P. Roane, Deputy Commander, Surface Combatants, Naval Sea Systems Command, RADM M. MacKinnon lll, Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair. N LS.. . . .wp M. .. '-wiff? mm 1- Newport News V., -3