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USS Nimitz

1972 Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Vehicle Supercarrier Q463161
USS Nimitz
United States Navy · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

21 properties
Instance of
supercarrier
Official website
www.nimitz.navy.mil[16]
Short name
Nimitz[20]
Armament
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, Phalanx CIWS Km1992//0.33149874000/0482492-2[9][10][11]
Call sign
NMTZ[23]
Country of origin
United States[6]
Country of registry
United States[25]
Draft
+11.3[22]
Length
+332.8[21]
Location of creation
Newport News[18]
Manufacturer
Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News[3][4]
Name
USS Nimitz[24]
Named after
Chester W. Nimitz[2]
Native label
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)[19]
Operator
United States Navy[1]
Pennant number
CVN-68[17]
Powered by
A4W reactor[8]
Service entry
May 3, 1975[12]
Shipping port
Naval Base Kitsap[7]
Significant event
ship launching, keel laying, ship commissioning[13][14][15]
Vessel class
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier[5]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
137402308
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n2002160223
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Nimitz
Freebase ID
/m/019kty
NL CR AUT ID
ko20211102924
Quora topic ID
USS-Nimitz-CVN-68
SVKKL authority ID
0411312-Nimitz-lod-CVN68
Shipbucket ID
drawings/7737
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Ship", "USSNimitzCVN68::t583w"]
Yale LUX ID
group/6a8dd167-0cbb-43a0-96ee-fe0988ddc6b5

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🔗 Connections
Armament 3
Phalanx CIWS Km1992//0.33149874000/0482492-2, RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
Significant event 3
ship launching, keel laying, ship commissioning
Manufacturer 2
Newport News, Newport News Shipbuilding
Named after 2
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz UFO incident
Country of registry 1
United States
Instance of 1
supercarrier
Location of creation 1
Newport News
Named after 1
Chester W. Nimitz
Operator 1
United States Navy
Powered by 1
A4W reactor
Shipping port 1
Naval Base Kitsap
Vessel class 1
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
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Works and Contributions

Things named for USS Nimitz include Nimitz-class aircraft carrier[26], a ship class[27], founded in 1972[28] and USS Nimitz UFO incident[29], an UFO sighting[30].

Why It Matters

Entities named for USS Nimitz include Nimitz-class aircraft carrier[26], a ship class[27], founded in 1972[28] and USS Nimitz UFO incident[29], an UFO sighting[30].

Related Entities

Chester W. Nimitz United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  23. [23] ↑ . navsource.org. navsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Olea · 2026-11-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed labels, descriptions, aliases and claims: Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; remove alias=label/mul; add mul alias (Difool/WikidataCleanup)"
  2. 8w ago · Vicarage · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → United States
    "Created claim: Country of origin: United States, batch #274364"
  3. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Draft → 11.3 metre
    SVKKL authority ID → 0411312-Nimitz-lod-CVN68
    Instance of → supercarrier
    Named after → Chester W. Nimitz
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0411312-Nimitz-lod-CVN68, batch #259496"
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