SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk steamed into San Diego in the fall of 1961 with fanfare usually enjoyed by royalty, wrote the San Diego Union’s Lester Bell in a story announcing ...

BREMERTON — The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas ...

It was once the biggest symbol of American military power in the Indo-Pacific, battle tested from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and a survivor of a collision with a Soviet submarine. But the glory days ...

The former USS Kitty Hawk has arrived in Texas, five months after departing from Washington state. The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. Kitty Hawk was the ...

One of the United States’ last aircraft carriers powered by fossil fuels departed Washington state on Sunday, beginning its final journey before being scrapped. Aided by tugboats, the decommissioned ...

The former aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk left Bremerton, Washington, Saturday and is now en-route to a Texas shipbreaker to be turned into scrap. The last oil-fired carrier, Kitty Hawk was ...

There have been so many container ships off the coast of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for more than a year now that they could qualify as an armada. But an aircraft carrier? The unusual sight ...

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk left Washington for a scrapyard in Texas on Saturday. The US Navy previously sold the Kitty Hawk to a shipbreaking company for just one cent. The ship participated ...

SAN DIEGO — The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk steamed into San Diego in the fall of 1961 with fanfare usually enjoyed by royalty, wrote the San Diego Union’s Lester Bell in a story announcing the ...

A U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat takes off for a mission over Iraq from the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters, April 2003. The low price reflects a number of factors, including the need to tow the ships ...