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Dimensions
  • Length of flight deck: 1,092 ft (332.8 m)
  • Width of flight deck: 257 ft (78.3 m)
  • Height keel to mast: 244 ft (74.4 m, equal to 24-story building)
  • Area of flight deck: 4.5 acres
  • Weight of carrier: 97,000 tons
Propulsion System
  • Type: Nuclear reactor
  • Number of reactors: 2
  • Maximum speed: More than 30 knots (55+ km/h)
  • Number of screws: 4 (5 blades each)
  • Weight of screws: 66,200 lbs each (30027.8 kg each)
Flight Deck/Air Wing
  • Number of catapults: 4
  • Number of aircraft elevators: 4
  • Size of Air Wing: 80+ tactical aircraft
Miscellaneous
  • Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
  • Contract Date: March 29, 1988
  • Keel laid: March 13, 1991
  • Christened: November 11, 1993
  • Commissioned: December 9, 1995
  • Crew: 6,200 (including air wing)
  • Meals served daily: 18,600
  • Number of compartments: 2,700
  • Number of anchors: 2 (From USS FORRESTAL (CV-59))
  • Weight of anchors: 30 tons each
  • A/C plant capacity: 2,900 tons (enough to service 950 homes)
  • Distillation plant capacity: 400,000 gals (1,800,000 liters, enough to serve 2000 homes)
  • Number of telephones: 2,000
  • Tons of structural steel: More than 60,000 tons
  • Miles of cable and wiring: over 900
  • Number of light fixtures: more than 30,000
  • Required technical manuals: A stack as high as the Washington Monument (555 ft = 169 m)
  • Bed mattresses: If lined up end-to-end, they would stretch more than nine miles.
  • Sheets: 28,000
  • Pillow Cases: 14,000
  • Cost: $3.5 billion; projected service life: 50 years

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