The big E aka. the lucky E

[alphakaynine]

Class and type:  Yorktown-class aircraft carrier

Displacement:

As built:

    19,800 tons standard

    25,500 tons full load

From October 1943:

    21,000 tons standard

    32,060 tons full load

Length:

As built:

    770 ft (230 m) waterline

    824 ft 9 in (251.38 m) overall

From July 1942:

    827 ft 5 in overall length

Beam:

As built:

    83 ft 3 in (25.37 m)

    109 ft 6 in (33.38 m) overall

From October 1942:

    114 ft 5 in overall width

From October 1943:

    95 ft 5 in waterline

Draft:  25 ft 11.5 in (7.912 m)

Propulsion:

    9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers

    4 × Parsons geared turbines

    120,000 shp

    4 × propellers

Speed:  32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)

Range:  12,500 nautical miles (23,150 km; 14,380 mi) at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)

Complement:  2,217 officers and men (1941)

Sensors and

processing systems:  CXAM-1 RADAR[1]

Armament:

As built:

    8 × single 5 in/38 cal guns

    4 × quad 1.1 in/75 cal guns

    24 × .50 caliber machine guns

From April 1942:

    8 × 5 in/38 cal

    4 × quad 1.1 in/75 cal

    30 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons

From mid-June 1942 to mid-Sept 1942:

    8 × 5"/38 cal

    5 × quad 1.1"/75 cal

    32 × 20 mm Oerlikons

From Mid-Sept. 1942:

    8 × 5 in/38 cal

    4 × quad 40 mm Bofors guns

    1 × quad 1.1 in/75 cal

    44 × 20 mm Oerlikons(46 from 11/42)

From October 1943:

    8 × 5 in/38 cal

    40 × 40 mm Bofors (8×2, 6×4)

    50 × 20 mm Oerlikon

From September 1945:

    8 × 5 in/38 cal

    54 × 40 mm Bofors (5×2, 11×4)

    32 × 20 mm Oerlikons (16×2)

Armor:

    2.5–4 in belt

    60 lb protective decks

    4 in bulkheads

    4 in side and 2 in top round conning tower

    4 in side over steering gear

Aircraft carried:  90 aircraft

Aviation facilities:

    3 × elevators

    2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults

    1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults

[Windhover118]

Most decorated ship in US Naval History, took part in just about every major naval engagment in the Pacific. For a time was the only aircraft carrier left in the Pacific. She took everything the Japaense could throw at her time and time again but in the end it was the American peoples wish to forget the war that lead to her demise. Scraped in 1960 after numerous failed attempts to turn her into a muesum. =(

[Semour]

Windhover118, on 16 August 2012 - 11:59 PM, said:

Scraped in 1960 after numerous failed attempts to turn her into a muesum. =(

Hopefully not the same fate of her sister CVN65
when she is replaced

[mgibilterra]

what surprised me is how the navy wanted to make it into a memorial and save the ship but when they started the fundraiser for the ship no one paid in and then sip was eventually scraped.

[SMScannonfodder]

What a shame.