She arrived in Subic Bay on 22 June and departed on 25 June for return to Alameda on 6 July 1967. [citation needed], On 19 December 2007, the carrier returned home after a six-month deployment in the Persian Gulf.
Rear Admiral Walter L Curtis, Jr, Commander Carrier Division Nine, brought his flag aboard. September 2004 to October 2005 – Selected Restricted Availability – RAM replaces CIWS at forward port sponson; RAM added to aft starboard sponson. [41] Minutes later, a second launch with a launch bar was made by a Grumman A-6A Intruder, demonstrating one of the primary design goals of reducing launch intervals. Launched as William J. The ship was unavailable for filming, so scenes depicting Enterprise were again filmed aboard USS Ranger. [61] On 19 April 2010, Enterprise left the Northrop Grumman shipyard to conduct sea trials in preparation for return to the fleet. A similar display is seen on the recreation deck of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Enterprise first appeared in the 1968 movie Yours, Mine and Ours. Enterprise, with Captain Forrest S. Petersen now in command, then departed for Vietnam again, to provide air support for American and South Vietnamese units. William J. On Pearl Harbor Day (7 December 2001), President George W. Bush addressed the sailors of Enterprise from its flight deck. August 2020 um 18:08, This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article. On 25 February 1964, a crewman of the Finnish merchant ship Verna Paulin was injured in a fall while the ship was in the vicinity of Souda Bay, Greece. [citation needed] The cost of repairing the damage was $17 million, and Leuschner was relieved of command on 27 January 1986 as a result of the incident, by Captain Robert J. In 1995, Enterprise (covered as the USS Seahawk) was also used to film scenes for the pilot episodes of the TV series "JAG". [citation needed], In 1969–1970, Enterprise returned to Newport News Shipbuilding and went through an overhaul and her second refitting. [citation needed], In December 1972, the North Vietnamese returned to the peace table and Linebacker II ended. The Battle Group sailed directly for the Indian Ocean, with stops in Hawaii, Subic Bay, and Singapore. Surviving ships launched from 1919 to 1970.
A fire broke out on the flight deck, but was quickly extinguished by the flight deck crew. The outbound vessel finally passed underneath the Aerial Lift … Enterprise emerged from her refit on 22 June 1965. [20][21] She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. [39] Enterprise completed shakedown activities at Naval Station Norfolk on 5 April 1961. Because of the huge cost of her construction, Enterprise was launched and commissioned without the planned RIM-2 Terrier missile launchers. [citation needed], Over three weeks, aircraft from Enterprise flew nearly 700 missions and dropped over 800,000 lb (400 short tons; 360 t) of ordnance over Afghanistan. [40], In October 1962, Enterprise was dispatched to her first international crisis. Enterprise returned to NAS Alameda on 18 July 1968, having completed 12,839 catapult launches, with 12,246 sorties—9,182 of them combat. On 27 September 1994, Enterprise returned to sea for sea trials, now with Captain Richard J. Naughton in command, during which she performed an extended full power run as fast as when she was new. [78], Enterprise was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be decommissioned. [citation needed], On 8 February 2013, the United States Department of Defense announced that a number of nuclear projects would have to be postponed until the upcoming budget sequestration issue was resolved. [citation needed], From 28 January 1973, aircraft from Enterprise and Ranger flew 81 combat sorties against lines-of-communication targets in Laos. [citation needed], The technology of the AN/SPS-32 was based on vacuum tubes and the system required constant repairs. Enterprise was a principal setting of the popular movie Top Gun released in 1986. Her 93,284-long-ton (94,781 t)[5] displacement ranks her as the 12th-heaviest carrier, after the ten carriers of the Nimitz class and USS Gerald R. Ford. [48], One of the ports visited was Hobart, Tasmania in November 1976. [citation needed], In February 1975, Typhoon Gervaise struck the island nation of Mauritius, and Enterprise was ordered to provide disaster relief.