Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier
USS Enterprise |
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| 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: |
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| 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.
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