United States Navy — Aircraft carrier class
Saipan-class aircraft carrier
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1944
- In commission
- 1946–70
- Preceded by
- Independence-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- None
- Builders
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 19,000 long tons (19,305 t)
- Length
- 208.18 m (683 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 1,700
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 42 × Bofors 40 mm guns (5 quad, 11 dual mountings)
- 16 dual 20 mm guns AA
Roster
Holding 1 of the 2 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Saipan (CVL-48) | CVL-48 | 1946 | Scrapped 1976 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Saipan-class aircraft carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.