USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)

USS *John F. Kennedy* (CV-67)
Class overview
USS John F. Kennedy is escorted out of NS Mayport, Florida by tugboats, on 11 November 2003.
Name:	John F. Kennedy class
Builders:	Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Kitty Hawk class and Enterprise class
Succeeded by:	Nimitz class
In commission:	7 September 1968 – 1 August 2007
History
United States
Name:	USS John F. Kennedy
Namesake:	John F. Kennedy
Awarded:	30 April 1964
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding
Laid down:	22 October 1964
Launched:	27 May 1967
Sponsored by:	Caroline Kennedy
Christened:	27 May 1967
Commissioned:	7 September 1968
Decommissioned:	23 March 2007
Refit:	1984
Struck:	16 October 2009
Motto:	Date Nolite Rogare (Latin for "Give, be unwilling to ask"; cf. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country")
Nickname(s):	"Big John" (unofficially: "Bldg 67")
Fate:	Museum ship
Status:	On Donation Hold for use as a museum and memorial
Badge:
General characteristics
Type:	Aircraft carrier
Displacement:	60,728 tons light 82,655 tons full load 21,927 tons deadweight
Length:	1,052 ft (321 m) overall, 990 ft (300 m) waterline
Beam:	252 ft (77 m) extreme, 130 ft (40 m) waterline
Height:	192 ft (59 m) from top of the mast to the waterline
Draft:	36 ft (11 m) maximum, 37 ft (11 m) limit
Installed power:	8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 1,200 PSI 280,000 shp (210 MW)
Propulsion:	4 × steam turbines 4 shafts
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Capacity:	5,000+
Complement:	3,297 officers and men (without jet commands & crews)
Armament:	2 × GMLS Mk 29 launchers for Sea Sparrow missiles 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × RAM launchers
Aircraft carried:	80+

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (formerly CVA-67) is the only ship of her class (a variant of the Kitty Hawk class of aircraft carrier) and the last conventionally powered carrier built for the United States Navy. The ship is named after the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and is nicknamed "Big John." Kennedy was originally designated a CVA (fixed wing attack carrier); however, the designation was changed to CV to denote that the ship was capable of anti-submarine warfare, making her an all-purpose carrier.

After nearly 40 years of service in the United States Navy, Kennedy was officially decommissioned on 1 August 2007. She is berthed at the NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility in Philadelphia and is available for donation as a museum and memorial to a qualified organization. The name has been adopted by the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79).

Contracted as Ship Characteristic Board SCB-127C, the ship's keel was laid on 22 October 1964 by Newport News Shipbuilding. The ship was officially christened 27 May 1967 by Jacqueline Kennedy and her 9-year-old daughter, Caroline, two days short of what would have been President Kennedy's 50th birthday. The ship entered service 7 September 1968.

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