Aircraft carrier class
USS Ranger (CV-4)
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1931–1934
- In commission
- 1934–1946
- Preceded by
- Lexington-class aircraft carrier
- Succeeded by
- Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 14,576 long tons (14,810 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 17,577 long tons (17,859 t)
- Length
- 234.39 m (769 ft) OA
- Speed
- 29.3 knots (54.3 km/h, 33.7 mph)
- Complement
- 2,461
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 5 in/25 cal anti-aircraft guns
- 40 × .50 in machine guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Ranger (CV-4) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.