USS George Washington (CVN-73)
Approximately 97,000 standard tons ( full load)
317 meters ( waterline ), 332.85 meters ( flight deck )
40.84 meters ( hull ), 76.80 meters ( flight deck )
12.50 meters
3200 crew 2480 aircraft personnel
2 nuclear reactors, four propeller
30 nodes
2 Evolved Sea Sparrow and Rolling Airframe 2 starters and 3 Phalanx 1B
Up to 85
The USS George Washington ( CVN -73) is the sixth aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class of the U.S. Navy. It is named after the first President of the United States, George Washington. She was laid in the shipyard Newport News Shipbuilding on 25 August 1986, Kiel and put into service on July 4, 1992. Her home port is since September 2008, the port city of Yokosuka in Japan. The carrier thus replaced from the previously stationed there, the last conventionally powered carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63 ).
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Fire
24 May 2008 broke out in a ventilation shaft of the carrier of a fire and quickly spread through the cable channels on several decks and a total of 80 chambers; while 37 sailors were injured. The carrier, the USS frigate Crommelin (FFG -37) fueled at the time was located in the Pacific Ocean, near the Galapagos Islands, on the way to Japan. For repairs drove the carrier - after the fire was extinguished - under its own power for the naval base in San Diego ( California). According to media reports of the Commanding Officer Captain David C. Dykhoff and his executive officer, Captain David Dober released because of the accident in July 2008 of the commands on the carrier. Cause of the fire was the violation of safety rules, as in an equipment room, a cigarette was smoked. The damage amounted to 70 million while the U.S. dollar.
Others
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (Middle East Field Office - Subordinate Office Middle East Field Office - Naval Criminal Investigative Service Resident Unit) maintains on the ship a constantly staffed agents office ( Special Agent Afloat ); this is the only agency of the NCIS on a floating unit.