USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

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The Stennis 2007
The Stennis 2007
Overview
Order June 30, 1988
Keel laying March 13, 1991
Launch November 13, 1993
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning December 9, 1995
Technical specifications
displacement

approx. 97,000 standard tons (fully loaded)

length

317 meters (waterline), 332.85 meters (flight deck)

width

40.84 meters (fuselage), 76.80 meters (flight deck)

Draft

12.50 meters

crew

3200 crew
+ 2480 aircraft personnel

drive

2 nuclear reactors, 4 propellers

speed

30+ knots

Armament

2 ESSM and 2 rolling airframe starters

Planes

up to 85

The USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) is a nuclear powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the US Navy , named after Mississippi State Senator John C. Stennis . It is the seventh ship in its class. Her commissioning took place on December 9, 1995 , her home port is Bremerton in the US state of Washington .

In the first half of 2007 the carrier squadron Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) was stationed on the John C. Stennis .

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is currently performing a PIA (Planned Incremental Availibility), PSNS and IMF (Intermediate Maintenance Facility) overhaul on the carrier in Kitsap-Bremerton.

Calls

The first mission led the John C. Stennis in 1998 in the Persian Gulf, where it let its aircraft fly against Iraqi positions ( Operation Southern Watch ). This was repeated two years later. Immediately after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the aircraft carrier crossed the US west coast. 2003 took Stennis then the Iraq war part.

In 2010 the Stennis went to the shipyard. A $ 137 million, multi-month overhaul began in April at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .

In December 2011 the carrier was back in the Persian Gulf. At the end of December 2011, he drove through the Strait of Hormuz , where Iran was holding a maneuver at the same time to rehearse the closure of the road due to western sanctions due to the Iranian nuclear program. During this mission, an escort ship of the carrier rescued 13 Iranian seamen from the violence of alleged Somali pirates.

John C. Stennis in Fiction

  • In the film The Attack (2002), based on a book by Tom Clancy from 2002, the John C. Stennis is attacked and badly damaged by Russian aircraft in the North Sea.
  • In 2009, a film crew spent a month on the ship filming scenes for the film Transformers .
  • In the series Navy CIS , 1st season, episode 6, Speed ​​(Original: High Seas ), the team around Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs investigates on board CVN 74.
  • In the series Navy CIS , 6th season, episode 2, Agent zur See (Original: Agent Afloat ), the team around Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs investigates on board CVN 74. The ship on which Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo is stationed sails under the name USS Seahawk.
  • The CVN-74 is often seen under the name USS Patrick Henry in the JAG series .
  • In the computer game "Digital Combat Simulator" by Eagle Dynamics, the John C. Stennis was added in May 2018 as part of the release of the "F / A-18 Hornet" module.
  • In Tom Clancy's novel Ehrenschuld (1994), the John C. Stennis is torpedoed and damaged by a Japanese submarine .

Web links

Commons : USS John C. Stennis  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decades of dominance on the world's oceans: the aircraft carriers of the US Navy . In: FLIGHT REVIEW . ( Flugrevue.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Rescue in the Arabian Sea: US Navy frees Iranian sailors from the hands of pirates. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 7, 2012.