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- Code Number:
- MYNV18P06_13
- Title:
- landing, flight deck, Princeton (CV/CVA/CVS-37, LPH-5), Essex-class aircraft carrier, Fantail
- Namesake: Battle of Princeton, 1777
Operator: United States Navy
Builder: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Laid down: 14/09/1943
Launched: 8/07/1945
Commissioned: 18/11/1945
Decommissioned: 30/01/1970
Renamed: PCU Valley Forge to PCU Princeton
Reclassified: CVA-37, CVS-37 and LPH-5
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1971
Class and type: Essex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: As built: 27,100 tons standard
Length: As built: 271 meters (888 feet) overall
Beam: As built: 28 meters (93 feet) waterline
Draft: As built: 8.71 meters (28 feet 7 inches) light
Propulsion: As designed: 8 boilers, 4 Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 shafts, 150,000 shp (110 MW)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement: 3448 officers and enlisted
Armament: As built:
4 twin 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns
4 single 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns
8 quadruple Bofors 40 mm guns
46 single Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
Armor as built:
4 inch (100 mm) belt
2.5 inch (60 mm) hangar deck
1.5 inch (40 mm) protective decks
1.5 inch (40 mm) conning tower
Aircraft carried: 90?100 aircraft - Keywords:
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