100,000 pounds.
It helps stear, the size of the rudder depends on the size of the ship
On the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower there are two anchors. Each anchor weighs 60,000 pounds. Each link of anchor chain weighs 365 pounds. Each anchor and chain weighs a total of 735,000 pounds.
A Nimitz class CVN uses approximately the weight of a paper clip worth of U235 per day at an average underway power. I cannot disclose the weight of U235 upon initial fuel load due to it being classified, but It is not near as much as one would expect for the ship to run for 20-25 yrs.
The "weight" of a modern US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is expressed as its "displacement". The latest class of carriers, the Nimitz class, has a displacement of more than 97,000 tons (long tons) or 98,000 tonnes.
It is unlikely that a hurricane would be able to destroy an aircraft carrier due to their size, weight, and design specifically to withstand harsh weather conditions. Aircraft carriers are built to withstand rough seas and extreme weather events, making them highly resilient in most situations.
There is no maximum theoretically. As long as the weight of the water being displaced is greater than the weight of the ship itself, it will float. That's why a 1 pound steel ball sinks, but a 90,000 ton aircraft carrier made out of the same material floats.
The largest supercarriers, the US Navy's Nimitz class, displace about 105,000 tons fully loaded.
An aircraft carrier typically weighs around 100,000 tons, so 2.5 million tons would be equivalent to about 25 aircraft carriers. This weight is also close to the combined weight of thousands of commercial airplanes or hundreds of thousands of cars.
There is much more to a carrier than what you see above the surface of the water. There is "ballast" which adds weight to the bottom of the ship. This is usually lead ingots that are stationary. Water can be pumped into and out of various tanks to add or subtract weight and keep the ship level, This is alco considered "ballast".
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From Wikipedia: "If the object has exactly the same density as the liquid, then its buoyancy equals its weight. It will tend neither to sink nor float. An object with a higher average density than the fluid has less buoyancy than weight and it will sink. A ship floats because although it is made of steel which is more dense than water, it encloses a volume of air and the resulting shape has an average density less than that of the water."
The F-4 Phantom II is equipped with a tail hook that typically weighs around 50 to 60 pounds (approximately 23 to 27 kilograms). This tail hook is designed for carrier operations, allowing the aircraft to catch arrestor wires on an aircraft carrier's landing deck. Its robust design ensures the aircraft can safely land on moving ships, a critical capability for naval aviation.