Essex Class Aircraft Carrier

(Short Hulls)

CV 9 USS Essex (1942)

CV 10 USS Yorktown (1943)

CV 11 USS Intrepid (1943)

CV 12 USS Hornet (1943)

CV 13 USS Franklin (1944)

CV 16 USS Lexington (1943)

CV 17 USS Bunker Hill (1943)

CV 18 USS Wasp (1943)

CV 20 USS Bennington (1944)

CV 31 USS Bon Homme Richard (1944)

 

 

(Long Hull)
Ticonderoga subclass

CV 14 USS Ticonderoga (1944)

CV 15 USS Randolph (1944)

CV 19 USS Hancock (1944)

CV 21 USS Boxer (1945)

CV 32 USS Leyte (1946)

CV 33 USS Kearsarge (1946)

CV 34 USS Oriskany (1950)

CV 35 USS Reprisal
(cancelled while under construction)

CV 36 USS Antietam (1945)

CV 37 USS Princeton (1945)

CV 38 USS Shangri-La (1944)

CV 39 USS Lake Champlain (1945)

CV 40 USS Tarawa (1945)

CV 45 USS Valley Forge (1946)

CV 46 USS Iwo Jima
(cancelled while under construction)

CV 47 USS Philippine Sea (1946)

Specifications
( WW II after the end of the war they change and the angle decks were added to many)

Displacement:
design: 34000 tons (full load) / actual: 36960 tons / after modification: up to 47120 tons
Length: 265,8 meters (872 feet) short units / 270,7 m (888 ft) long units
Beam: 45 meters (147.5 ft) - max. / 28,3 meters (93 ft) - waterline
Draft: 8,4 meters (27.5 ft) full load
Speed: 32,5 knots (60 km/h)

Propulsion:
4 x Westinghouse geared steam turbines
8 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers
4 shafts / 4 propellers
Range: 20000 NM (37000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)

Complement: 2630

Armament:
12 x 5-inch (127mm)/38-caliber guns (4x2 / 4x1)
32-72 x Bofors 40mm AA guns (8-18x4)
55-76 x Oerlikon 20mm AA guns

Aviation:
Full flight deck with island and hangar deck for up to 100 aircraft.

Systems:
1 x SK air-search radar
1 x SC air-search radar
2 x SG surface-search radar
1 x SM fighter-direction radar (later units)
2 x Mk 4 fire-control radar (earlier units)
2 x Mk 12 fire-control radar (later units)
2 x Mk 22 height-finding radar (later units)
10-17 x Mk 51 AA directors