-USS Enterprise-
World's largest warship is nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, she is also world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name.
General Characteristics
Displacement: 93,284 long tons (94,781 t) Full Load
Length: 342 m (1.123 ft)
Beam: 40.5 m (132.8 ft) (waterline); 78.4 m (257.2 ft) (extreme)
Draught: 12 m (39 ft)
Speed: 33.6 kn (38.7 mph; 62.2 km/h)
USS Enterprise has been built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company and she is in commission since 25 November 1961.
At 342 m (1,123 ft), she is the longest naval vessel in the world. Her 93,284 long tons (94,781 t) displacement ranks her as the 11th-heaviest supercarrier, after the 10 carriers of the Nimitz class.
Enterprise has a crew of some 4,600 people.
Enterprise is also the only aircraft carrier to house more than two nuclear reactors. This was due to the ready availability of a field-proven production design developed for nuclear submarines. She is the only carrier with four rudders, two more than other classes, and features a more cruiser-like hull.
She was originally scheduled for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford.
But the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement for 2013, when she will have served for 51 consecutive years, longer than any other U.S. aircraft carrier.
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