USS Iwo Jima (CV-46)
USS Iwo Jima under construction
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Iwo Jima |
Namesake | Battle of Iwo Jima |
Ordered | 14 June 1943 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co |
Laid down | 1945 |
Stricken | 1949 |
Identification | Hull number: CV-46 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Essex-class aircraft carrier |
Displacement | |
Length |
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Beam | 93 ft (28.3 m) (waterline) |
Draft | 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) (full load) |
Propulsion | 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 2,600 officers and enlisted men |
Armament |
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Armor |
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Aircraft carried | 91–103 aircraft |
USS Iwo Jima (CV-46) was a planned Essex-class aircraft carrier for the United States Navy. Newport News Shipbuilding[1] began construction of the vessel in early 1945, but on August 12, with the end of World War II, the Navy cancelled the contract.[2] She remained in an unfinished state until 1949, when her hull was scrapped in the slipway in Newport News before ever being launched.[3]
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Polmar, Norman (2008). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Volume II 1946-2006. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books. ISBN 9781574886658.
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Categories:
- Essex-class aircraft carriers
- 1945 ships
- World War II aircraft carriers of the United States