The iconic USS John F. Kennedy, the fourth and final Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier named after US President John F. Kennedy, has been sold for one cent. Attempts to turn it into a museum ship have failed.
The ship, launched on May 27, 1967, was the last U.S. aircraft carrier to be powered by steam turbines. It was decommissioned in 2007, after 39 years.
The ship participated in the first Gulf War in 1991 and in the early stages of the war in Afghanistan. USS John F. Kennedy January 17, 2025 went on its final journey from the U.S. Navy Ship Maintenance Station to the Texas shipyard of International Shipbreaking Limited in Brownsville, where it will be broken down into parts that will then be sold for scrap.