![]() USS John C. Stennis underway off the coast of southern California
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Name | John C. Stennis |
Namesake | John C. Stennis |
Awarded | 30 June 1988[1] |
Builder | Northrop Grumman Newport News[1] |
Cost | $4.5 billion |
Laid down | 13 March 1991[1] |
Launched | 13 November 1993[1] |
Sponsored by | Margaret Jane Stennis Womble |
Commissioned | 9 December 1995[1] |
Homeport | Norfolk |
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Motto | Look Ahead |
Status | in active service |
Notes | Ship in RCOH (Refueling and Complex Overhaul) |
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Class and type | Nimitz-class aircraft carrier |
Displacement | 103,300 tons[2][3] |
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Speed | 30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph)[6] |
Range | Unlimited distance; 20–25 years |
Capacity | 6,500 officers and crew (with embarked airwing)[1] |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Armor | Unknown |
Aircraft carried | 90 fixed wing and helicopters |
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USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, is the seventh of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers in the United States Navy.
She was commissioned on 9 December 1995. Her home port is temporarily Norfolk, Virginia, for her scheduled refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), which began in 2019. After her overhaul is completed sometime in the 2020s, she is scheduled to return to Bremerton, Washington.