NORFOLK — The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), currently in Norfolk, will rejoin the Pacific Fleet, making San Diego its homeport, the Navy announced Thursday.
The USS Lincoln, commissioned in 1989, previously served in the Pacific Fleet from 1990-2011 before moving to Norfolk for midlife refueling.
The Navy also announced Thursday that two other Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), and USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) “will conduct homeport shifts.”
Those two shifts are tied to carrier maintenance, according to the Navy.
John C. Stennis, currently homeported in Bremerton, Washington, will move to Norfolk in advance of its midlife refueling, or reactor complex overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding.
The Stennis was commissioned in 1995.
The Vinson will conduct a homeport change to Bremerton in advance of its docking-planned incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
The Navy said Nimitz-class carriers are built to last 50 years.
