The warship uses two Mark II stockless anchors that weigh 30 tons each, with each link of the anchor chain weighing 360 pounds (160 kg). There are over 2,500 compartments on board requiring 2,520 refrigeration tons (8.6 MW) of air conditioning capacity (enough to cool over 2,000 homes). gallons (1,500,000 L) of potable water a day the food service divisions serve 18,000 meals per day. Her four distilling units can make 400,000 U.S. With a combat load, GW displaces almost 97,000 long tons (99,000 t) and can accommodate 6,250 crewmembers.
The super carrier can accommodate approximately 90 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres (18,000 m 2) in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 square feet (360 m 2) each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay. George Washington (commonly known as GW) is 1,092 feet (333 m) long, 257 ft (78 m) wide and 244 ft (74 m) high. The repairs will not be completed until March 2023. In April of 2022 The Military times reported an increase in suicides citing difficult working conditions for the crew. After refueling was completed additional repairs were found to be needed and the overhaul was extended. Since August 2017, the carrier has been in her four-year Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH), which was expected to be completed by May 2022. In 2008, USS George Washington became the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier to be forward-deployed at naval base Yokosuka, Japan. Her keel was laid on 25 August 1986, she was christened on 21 July 1990 by First Lady Barbara Bush, and the vessel was commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk on 4 July 1992. The contract for George Washington was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding on 27 December 1982.
USS George Washington ( CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship named after George Washington, Founding Father, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States.
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