USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is an inactive^[10] United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the world's firstnuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed "Big E". At 1,123 ft (342 m),^[4][5] she is the longest naval vessel in the world, a record which still stands. Her 93,284-long-ton (94,781 t)^[3] displacement ranked her as the 12th-heaviest supercarrier, after the 10 carriers of the Nimitz class and the USS Gerald R. Ford. Enterprise had a crew of some 4,600 service members.^[8]

The only ship of her class, Enterprise^[11] was, at the time of inactivation, the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the United States Navy after the wooden-hulled USS Constitution and USS Pueblo. She was originally scheduled for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford,^[12] but theNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement for 2013, when she would have served for 51 consecutive years, longer than any other U.S. aircraft carrier.^[13]

Enterprise's home port was Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia as of September 2012.^[14] Her original home port was Naval Air Station Alameda until close to its closure in 1997. When in port at NAS Alameda, she was visible to those crossing the San Francisco/Oakland "Bay Bridge." She was the flagship of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz while he lived in Berkeley, California until his death in 1966. Her final deployment, the last before her inactivation, began on 10 March 2012 and ended 4 November 2012. She was inactivated on 1 December 2012, with her official decommissioning taking place sometime in 2016^[15] after the completion of an extensive terminal offload program currently underway.^[16][17] The name has been adopted by the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-80).^[18][19]

As of 2015, Enterprise is still a commissioned United States Navy ship, but is inactive.^[20] She has undergone enough of the four-year-long inactivation process to render her unfit for further military service. Inactivation removes fuel, fluids, furnishings, tools, fittings and de-energizes the ship's electrical system.^[21] Enterprise has already been cut open to allow the removal of usable systems.^[22]

(REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)