December 11, 1954 – The First Supercarrier: The USS Forrestal

On this day in engineering history, the U.S. Navy launched the world's first supercarrier, the USS Forrestal (CV 59) from Newport News, Virginia. Named after James Vincent Forrestal, a former Secretary of the Navy and the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Forrestal superseded the Imperi

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