4 things you didn't know about aircraft carriers. Fact 1, In May 1957, 10 students from the University of Sydney, dressed as pirates, boarded the aircraft carrier USS Bennington CV-20. They entered the bridge and turned on the public address system, and said, "Now hear this, "the USS Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" They were later escorted out without any charges. Fact 2, The USS Gerald R. Ford uses the PAWDS, or Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System to vaporize all the poop into synthesis gas. Fact 3, The United Kingdom has sold the most aircraft carriers to other nations. British built carriers were operated at one point or another by Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Australia, France, India, and the Netherlands. Most of these were Majestic or Colossus class carriers laid down during the Second World War but never completed by the end. Fact 4, In December 1929, the US Navy tied up the USS Lexington CV-2 to the Baker Dock, to supply electricity to Tacoma for a month to meet a power crisis. She produced 140 thousand kilowatts of power.
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