CV-32 USS Leyte
Class: Essex / Ticonderoga
Shipyard: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.,Newport News,Virginia
construction started: 21 February 1944
Launched: 23 August 1945
Entered service: 1 April 1946
Original name: Crown Point
Renamed: January 1945
Reclassified to CVA-32: 1 October 1952
Reclassified to CVS-32: 8 August 1953
Reclassified to AVT-10: 10 May 1959
Decommissioned: 15 May 1959
Decommissioned: 1 June 1969
sold for scrap: 1971
Length: 888' 270,66 m
width: 93' 28,35 m
draught: 29' 8.83 m
Flight deck dimensions
length: 888' 270.66 m
Width: 95' 28.95 m
Displacement
standard: 27,100 tonnes
maximum: 33,000 tonnes
Propulsion
Boilers: 8 Babcock & Wilcox
Turbines: 4 Westinghouse
output: 150 000 shp
Range: 8,000 n.miles / 15 knots
Speed: 33 knots
Armour
sides: 2"-3" 50.8-76 mm
Deck: 1" 25.4 mm
Hangar deck: 2.5" 63.5 mm
flight deck: 0.50" 12.7 mm
Armament
1946
12x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xII , 8xI )
28x20 mm ( 28xI )
1958
12x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xII , 8xI )
Number of machines carried
80 - 103
Crew
Officers: 226 - 382
sailors: 2 880 - 3 003
Class: Essex / Ticonderoga
Shipyard: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.,Newport News,Virginia
construction started: 21 February 1944
Launched: 23 August 1945
Entered service: 1 April 1946
Original name: Crown Point
Renamed: January 1945
Reclassified to CVA-32: 1 October 1952
Reclassified to CVS-32: 8 August 1953
Reclassified to AVT-10: 10 May 1959
Decommissioned: 15 May 1959
Decommissioned: 1 June 1969
sold for scrap: 1971
Length: 888' 270,66 m
width: 93' 28,35 m
draught: 29' 8.83 m
Flight deck dimensions
length: 888' 270.66 m
Width: 95' 28.95 m
Displacement
standard: 27,100 tonnes
maximum: 33,000 tonnes
Propulsion
Boilers: 8 Babcock & Wilcox
Turbines: 4 Westinghouse
output: 150 000 shp
Range: 8,000 n.miles / 15 knots
Speed: 33 knots
Armour
sides: 2"-3" 50.8-76 mm
Deck: 1" 25.4 mm
Hangar deck: 2.5" 63.5 mm
flight deck: 0.50" 12.7 mm
Armament
1946
12x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xII , 8xI )
28x20 mm ( 28xI )
1958
12x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xII , 8xI )
Number of machines carried
80 - 103
Crew
Officers: 226 - 382
sailors: 2 880 - 3 003