---Filter--- Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Struck Port Visit Refit Deployment Homeport 1956 Ordered 1957-sep-14 Laid down as CVA-64 1960-oct-8 Launched 1961-oct-27 Commissioned 1962-sep Homeport Naval Base San Diego 1970-feb-20 Deployment Yankee Station, off Vietnam, lost HH-3A 149908 from HC-7 1973-oct Refit NAS Seattle / Puget Sound 1975-jul-1 reclassified as CV-64 1982 Refit until 1984, Terrier long range SAMs removed. 1990-oct Refit Philadelphia Naval Shipyard SLEP Service Life Extension Programme, until Mar 19931993-jul Homeport Naval Base San Diego 1994-may Deployment RIMPAC 94 until Jun.1994-nov Deployment WestPac 95 departed NAS North Island for 6 month WestPac95 deployment with HS-2 embarked. Joined by USS Kinkaid and Ammunition ship USS Kiska . Rendezvoused with USS Chosin and USS Lake Erie off Hawaii.1995-jan Deployment Operation Southern Watch Persian Gulf enforcing no-fly zone, until May1997-apr Deployment Operation Southern Watch Persian Gulf enforcing no-fly zone, until Oct.1999-nov Port Visit Fremantle Harbour 2001-apr Deployment Operation Southern Watch Persian Gulf enforcing no-fly zone, until Aug when she headed for Pearl Harbor.2001-sep-9 Deployment NS Pearl Harbor Tiger Cruise return leg from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, arriving 14 Sep.2002-nov Deployment Enduring & Iraqi Freedom Final deployment from NS San Diego to Arabian Gulf until Jun 2003.2003-aug-7 Decommissioned NAS North Island 2003-dec-2 Struck Bremerton, WA
Fremantle Harbour visited Fremantle during mid Nov 1999
New York Naval Shipyard, 
