Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier

Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier



USS Enterprise
Class overview
Builders: Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Ranger class
Succeeded by: Wasp class aircraft carrier, Essex-class aircraft carrier
In commission: 30 September 1937 – 17 February 1947
Completed: 3
Lost: 2
Retired: 1
General characteristics
Displacement: 19,800 long tons (20,100 t) standard
25,500 long tons (25,900 t)) full load
Length: 770 ft (230 m) waterline at design draft
809 ft 9 in (246.81 m) length of main hull
824 ft 9 in (251.38 m) overall length
Beam: 83 ft (25 m) at waterline
109 ft 6 in (33.38 m) width at flight deck
Draft: 26 ft (7.9 m)
(24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) design draft)
Propulsion: 9 boilers
120,000 shp (89 MW)
Speed: 32.5 kn (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range: 12,500 nmi (23,200 km)
Complement: 2,217
Armament:
  • 8 × 5 in/38 caliber guns
  • 4 × quad 1.1 in/75 caliber guns (Enterprise upgraded to 40 mm Bofors guns)
  • 24 × .50 Cal machine guns (all of the ships upgraded to 20 mm Oerlikon cannons)
Armor: Belt: 2.5–4 in (6.3–10 cm)
Tower: 4 inches (10 cm)
Aircraft carried: 90
Aviation facilities: 2 flight deck catapults
1 hangar catapult
3 aircraft elevators

The Yorktown class was a class of three aircraft carriers built by the U.S. and completed shortly before World War II. They bore the brunt of early action in that war, and USS Enterprise, the sole survivor of the class, became the most decorated ship in the history of the U.S. Navy.

Read more about Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier:  Development, Ships in Class, Operational History

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