ENTERPRISE (Oct. 3, 1936)
YORKTOWN (1936)
Displacement: 19,900 tons (standard); 25,500 tons (full)
Complement: 2,919
Length: 761 ft (w.l.), 809.5 ft (o.a)
Beam: 114 ft (max.)
Draught: 28 ft (mean)
Aircraft: 89
space for over 100
Guns:
8 - 5 inch, 38 cal.dual purpose
16 - 1.1 inch M.G. AA
16 smaller M.G.
Armour:
Belt 4"
Main deck 3"
2nd deck 1"- 3"
Machinery: Geared turbines. S.H.P.: 120,000 = 34 kts.Boilers:
9 Babcock & Wilcox Express type. 4 shafts. |
YORKTOWN - Foundered after being torpedoed by a Japanese
submarine, having previously been damaged by aircraft torpedoes
and bombs in Battle of Midway, June 7, 1942. |
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General notes: Owing to serious mechanical defects, involving
replacement of the reduction gearing and over 1,200 boiler tubes,
completion of Enterprise was postponed until late in 1938.
Said to have cost about $25,000,000.
Aircraft notes: Aircraft can be catapulted from hangar
deck as well as from flight deck, thus increasing the number
that can be put into the air at short notice. There are 3 lifts
from hangars to flight deck. |
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Kamikadze hit 14/05/1945 |
ENTERPRISE
Kamikadze hit 14/05/1945 |
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First hit in Battle of Midway |
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TBD Devastator - TBA Avenger |
SBD Dauntless |
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HORNET (1940)
Displacement: 19,000 tons (standard); 29,100 tons (full)
Complement: 2,919
Length: 827.5 ft
Beam: 114 ft
Draught: 29 ft
Aircraft: 87
space for over 100
Guns:
8 - 5 inch, 38 cal.dual purpose
16 - 1.1 inch M.G. AA
30 - 20mm M.G.AA
9 - 0.5" M.G.
Armour:
Belt 2.5"- 4"
Main deck 3"
2nd deck 1"- 3"
Machinery: Geared turbines. S.H.P.: 120,000 = 34 kts.Boilers:
9 Babcock & Wilcox Express type. 4 shafts. |
HORNET - Sunk by U.S. Naval forces after being inrreparaly
damaged in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942. |
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