The End Of The Line For The Big 'E'

The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is nearing the end of it's 50+ year history serving America in oceans all over the world

On The Front Lines Of History: USS Enterprise On Its Last Deployment -- CNN

The U.S. Navy has had eight ships named the Enterprise. The first was commandeered from the British in the early stages of the Revolutionary War by Benedict Arnold, before the America even had a navy and before he became America's most notorious traitor.

The seventh Enterprise was an aircraft carrier and a mainstay of the Navy's war in the Pacific during World War II. Three times the Japanese Navy said it had sunk "The Grey Ghost," but the Enterprise survived and is regarded as the most decorated warship in U.S. history.

But when the eighth USS Enterprise put to sea in 1962, it already had a place in American military history.

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My Comment: There is already a move underway to name CVN-80, a yet to be built carrier, as the ninth USS Enterprise.