This page is dedicated to all Enterprise people - past, present and future - and to
my grandfather, Arthur F. Cunningham, the best Electrician's Mate I ever knew.




USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Ship's Logo
USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
Official Website

Welcome to
AO3 SMITTY'S
ENTERPRISE PAGE

I hope you enjoy your stay aboard the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (my home for 4 years).
Click the 'Big E' button to start the tour!

Most photos were taken by myself or with my camera. Thank you for visiting, and please help yourself to a wallpaper from the Water page!

AO3 Smitty's USS Enterprise Logbook
message board and guestbook
 		Big E World Cruise '06 Homecoming
Big E World Cruise '06
Homecoming at Norfolk Naval Base

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) : The Big E Enterprise Hatches F/A-18 Hornet Ordies and Ordnance Ordies and Ordnance Part II: Legendary Enterprise Photos Squids and Shipwrecks
F-14B Tomcat Water, Water, Everywhere Airdales Big E In Portsmouth, U.K. Big E In Portsmouth, U.K. - Part II Vertreps, Ordies, and other Flight Deck photos

1958: Mid-Production
Big E in Mid-Production, 1958

1960: Launching of a legend
The Launching of a Legend, 1960

1967: Unrep at Yankee Station
USS Enterprise and USS Taluga unrep in Tonkin Gulf, 1967

1991: Big E entering drydock
Big E entering drydock, 1991
Big E Statistics

Designation: USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Keel Laid: February 4, 1958
Launched: September 24, 1960
Commissioned: November 25, 1961
Overall Length: 1,123'
Width (at widest point): 257'
Height (from keel to mast): 250'
Area of Flight Deck: 4.47 acres
Area of Hangar Bay: 216,000 sq. feet
Displacement: 93,000 tons fully-loaded
75,000 tons without airwing, jet fuel, or ordnance
Crew: 5,500 (airwing + ship's company)
3,500 (ship's company only)
Nuclear Reactors: Eight
Horsepower: 280,000
Top Speed: 30+ knots
Propellors: Four, each measures 18' diameter
Rudders: Four, each weighs 35 tons
Anchors: Two, each weighs 32 tons

Mailing Address: [ sailor's rate & full name ]
[ sailor's department & division ]
USS Enterprise, CVN-65
FPO AE 09543-2810

Patch from Enterprise Overhaul, 1991-1994, Newport News Shipyard, Virginia



ENTERPRISE FLIGHT OPS
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more USS Enterprise and Navy resources...


AO3 Smitty's Page is the one-and-only Unofficial USS Enterprise (CVN 65) site listed at
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Take a virtual tour of the USS Enterprise by ImagicDigital
including the awesome 12-foot model of the Big E built by Steve Henninger
on display at the National Air and Space Museum.


The Official Website of Reactor and Engineering Departments
"Official Big E Rx Site"


CVN-65 stats, info, photos, links, and more...
"The Unofficial Page of the USS Enterprise"


"Voyages of the Enterprise"
A History of the Ships, Aircraft,
and Spacecraft Named Enterprise


USS Enterprise CVAN-65
A Personal On-Line Museum


Navy NewsStand Focus on USS Enterprise

The USS Enterprise CVAN/CVN-65 Association

The AO Shack

The Association of Aviation Ordnancemen

The Colossus: Carrier News


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