Class: Essex / Ticonderoga
Shipyard: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.,Newport News,Virginia
construction started: 10 May 1943
Launched: 29 June 1944
Entered service: 9 October 1944
Damaged
11 March 1945 kamikaze
Position: 10°01'N and 139°40'E
7 June 1945 operational accident
Decommissioned: 25 February 1948
Reactivated: 1 July 1953
SCB-27A upgrade: January 1952-July 1953
Reclassified to CVA-15: 1 October 1952
SCB-125 upgrade: August 1955-February 1956
Reclassified to CVS-15: 31 March 1959
FRAM II upgrade: June 1960-February 1961
Decommissioned: 13 February 1969
sold for scrap: 1 April 1975
Length: 888' 270.66 m
width: 93' 28,35 m
draught: 29' 8.83 m
Flight area 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
1945
12x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xII , 8xI )
72x40 mm ( 18xIV )
56x20 mm ( 56xI )
1953
8x127 mm 5"/38 ( 8xI )
28x76 mm 3"/50 ( 14xII )
1956
8x127 mm 5"/38 ( 8xI )
8x76 mm 3"/50 ( 4xII )
1968
4x127 mm 5"/38 ( 4xI )
Number of machines carried
80-103 machines
Crew
Officers: 226 - 382
sailors: 2 880 - 3 003