USS Forrestal (CV-59)

Upon commissioning, Forrestal was the largest warship in US Navy history. USS Forrestal (CVA-59) was the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, commissioned on October 1, 1955, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia. She was the first carrier designed from the keel up to operate jet aircraft and nuclear weapons simultaneously, and the first to incorporate an angled flight deck and enclosed hurricane bow as original design features. At 59,900 tons of standard displacement and 1,039 …