United States Navy — Cruiser
CL-78
USS Dayton (CL-78)
Service
- as Monterey17 June 1943 — 16 January 1956808 days of the war
Independence-class aircraft carrier
Particulars
- Name
- USS Dayton
- Pennant / hull number
- CL-78
- Namesake
- Battle of Monterey
- Builder
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 29 December 1941
- Launched
- 28 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 17 June 1943
- Decommissioned
- 11 February 1947
- Recommissioned
- 15 September 1950
- Struck
- 1 June 1970
- Fate
- Sold for scrap May 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 11,000 long tons (11,177 t)
- Length
- 189.74 m (622.5 ft)
- Beam
- 21.79 m (71.5 ft)
- Draught
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Speed
- 31.6 knots (58.5 km/h, 36.4 mph)
- Complement
- 1,569
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
Dayton (CL‑78) was laid down on 29 December 1941 at Camden, N.J.; by the New York Shipbuilding Corp.; reclassified as an aircraft carrier, CV‑26, on 27 March 1942, she was renamed Monterey ( q.v .) on 31 March 1942 (see Monterey III for complete history).
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Dayton (CL-78)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 26 × Bofors 40 mm guns, 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- Aircraft
- 45
Sister ships
- USS Amsterdam (CL-59)
- USS Bataan (CVL-29)
- USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)
- USS Buffalo (CL-99)
- USS Cabot (CVL-28)
- USS Cowpens (CVL-25)
- USS Fargo (CL-85)
- USS Huntington (CL-77)
- USS Independence (CVL-22)
- USS Langley (CVL-27)
- USS Monterey (CVL-26)
- USS New Haven (CL-76)
- USS Newark (CL-100)
- USS Princeton (CV-23)
- USS Princeton (CVL-23)
- USS Reprisal (CV-30)
- USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
- USS Tallahassee (CL-61)
- USS Wilmington (CL-79)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Dayton (CL-78) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Dayton (CL-78) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Photographed by Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. — http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h97000/h97451.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons