The vessel, measuring 1,053 feet in length and with a displacement of 87,000 tons, is heading to the Shipbreaking Limited facility in Brownsville, Texas, which purchased it for just a penny.

Kitty Hawk was reportedly sold to the Texas ship-breaking company in Brownsville for a cent and will have to go all the way down to the tip of South America and back up because it is too big to ...

The retired Navy carrier is set to depart from South Philadelphia's Navy Yard around 9 a.m., and will travel to Brownsville, Texas where it ... JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed ...

on the Pacific to its yard in Brownsville, Texas. The 1,088-foot carrier has to be towed around the tip of South America because it is too big to slip through the Panama Canal. The trip is ...