USS CARL VINSON CVN - 70
Namesake: Carl Vinson
Ordered: 5 April 1974
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Laid down: 11 October 1975
Launched: 15 March 1980
Commissioned: 13 March 1982
Homeport: NAS North Island San Diego, California
Motto: Vis Per Mare (Strength from the Sea)
Status: active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 101,300 long tons (113,500 short tons)
Length:
Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8m)
Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0m)
Beam:
Overall: 252 feet (76.8m)
Waterline: 134 feet (40.8m)
Draft:
Maximum navigational: 37 feet (11.3m)
Limit: 41 feet (12.5m)
Propulsion:
2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors
4 × steam turbines
4 × shafts
260,000shp (194MWS)
Speed: 30 + knots (56 + km/h; 35 + mph)
Range: Unlimited distance; 20 – 25 years
Complement:
Ship's company: 3,200
Air wing: 2,480
Crew: 6,062
Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPS - 48E 3 - D air search radar
AN/SPS - 49(V)5 2 - D air search radar
AN/SPQ - 9B target acquisition radar
AN/SPN - 46 air traffic control radars
AN/SPN - 43C air traffic control radar
AN/SPN - 41 landing aid radars
4 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems
4 × Mk 95 radars
Electronic warfare and decoys:
AN/SLQ - 32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite
SLQ - 25A Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
Armament:
2 × Mk 57 Mod3 Sea Sparrow
2 × RIM - 116 Rolling Airframe Missile
3 × Phalanx CIWS
Armor: Unknown
Aircraft carried: 90 fixed wing and helicopters

Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy".