CVE - USS Breton (CVE-23)

CVE-23 USS Breton

class: Bogue
yard: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation,Seattle,Washington
construction started: 25 February 1942
launched: 27 July 1942
taken into service: 12 April 1943

reclassified ACV-23: 20 August 1942
reclassified CVE-23: 15 July 1943

decommissioned: 20 August 1946
reclassified CVHE-23: 12 jun 1955

reactivated: 1 July 1958
reclassified to T-CVU-23: 1 July 1958
reclassified to T-AKV-42: 7 may 1959
decommissioned: January 1971
written off: 6 August 1972

length: 495.67' 151,08 m
width: 69.5' 21,18 m
draught: 25.5' 7,77 m

The dimensions of the flight surfaces
length: 466.67' 142,24 m
width: 78.45' 23,91 m

Displacement
standard: 11 420 tons
maximum: 15 390 tonnes

Drive
boilers: 2 Foster-Wheeler
turbine: 1 Allis-Chambers
performance: 8 500 - 9 350 shp
reach
..26 340 n. miles / 15 knots
..23 664 n. miles / 17 knots
speed: 18 zlů

Armament
2 x 127 mm 5"/38 ( 2 x I )
16 x 40 mm ( 8 x II )
20 x 20 mm ( 20 x )

The number of portable machines
18 - 24 machines

Crew
908 men.
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USS Breton
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