Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are "broken up" after their years of service. It begins with a ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the Middle East.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...

The USS John F. Kennedy was considered a supercarrier because of its higher aircraft capacity than most other ships, and it was built as a variant of the Kitty Hawk class of carriers made in the ...

Residents in the Chilean Port of Valparaíso have reported sighting the historic USS Kitty Hawk as she was being towed through the Pacific Ocean on her way to her final scrapping. The Kitty Hawk's ...

After USS Kitty Hawk was retired in 2009 ... However, the U.S. Navy deep-sixed the plan, ­and both CV-63 and CV-67 were ordered to be scrapped. What is noteworthy is that the USS Saratoga ...