United States Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Midway-class aircraft carrier
Midway class
The class in numbers
- 6 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 3 Cancelled
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 27 October 1943 – 2 April 1946
- In commission
- 10 September 1945 – 11 April 1992
- Preceded by
- Essex-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- United States-class aircraft carrier (planned)
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- New York Navy Yard
- Subclasses
- USS Coral Sea
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 45,000 long tons (45,722 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 60,000 long tons (60,963 t)
- Length
- 295.05 m (968 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 4,104
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- Original armament of Midway and Franklin D. Rosevelt:
- 18 × 5 in/54 caliber guns
- 21 × quad 40 mm Bofors gun
- 28 × twin 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
- Original armament of Coral Sea:
- 14 × 5 in/54 caliber guns
- 20 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns
- 14 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- Refit armament:
- 2 × 8-cell Sea Sparrow launchers
- 2 × Mark 71 mod 0 Phalanx CIWS
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Coral Sea (CV-43) | CV-43 | 1947 | Scrapped 2000 |
| USS Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1945 | Scrapped 1978 | |
| USS Midway (CV-41) | CV-41 | 1945 | Preserved |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Midway-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.