USS Franklin (CV-13)
Service
- as Franklin31 January 1944 — 17 February 1947583 days of the war
- Name
- USS Franklin
- Pennant / hull number
- CV-13
- Namesake
- USS Franklin, named for Benjamin Franklin
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Laid down
- 7 December 1942
- Launched
- 14 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 January 1944
- Decommissioned
- 17 February 1947
- Struck
- 1 October 1964
- Fate
- Scrapped, 27 July 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 27,100 long tons (27,535 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 36,380 long tons (36,964 t)
- Length
- 265.79 m (872 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28.35 m (93 ft)
- Draught
- 10.36 m (34 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 14,100 nmi (26,113 km)
- Complement
- 2,600
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Named for the two previous U.S. Navy ships, the ship-of-the-line and the screw frigate, that carried the name Franklin .
The third Franklin (CV-13) was laid down on 7 December 1942 at Newport News, Va., by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; launched on 14 October 1943, and sponsored by Lt. Cmdr. Mildred A. McAfee, USNR, Director of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
“Big Ben” as her crew affectionately called her, was commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va., on 31 January 1944, Capt. James M. Shoemaker in command, and fitted out there for the majority of February 1944.
Continue to the full service history About 6,626 words
From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Franklin III (CV-13)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × geared steam turbines
- 4 × screw propellers
- Power
- 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 150000 shp
- Armament
- 12 × 5 in DP guns
- 32 × 40 mm AA guns
- 46 × 20 mm AA guns
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 2.5 - 4 in
- Deck: 1.5 in
- Hangar deck: 2.5 in
- Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm)
- Aircraft
- 36 × Grumman F4F Wildcat
- 36 × Douglas SBD Dauntless
- 18 × Grumman TBF Avenger
Sister ships
- USS Antietam (CV-36)
- USS Bennington (CV-20)
- USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31)
- USS Boxer (CV-21)
- USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
- USS Essex (CV-9)
- USS Hancock (CV-19)
- USS Hornet (CV-12)
- USS Intrepid (CV-11)
- USS Kearsarge (CV-33)
- USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)
- USS Lexington (CV-16)
- USS Leyte (CV-32)
- USS Oriskany
- USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)
- USS Princeton (CV-37)
- USS Randolph (CV-15)
- USS Shangri-La
- USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
- USS Wasp (CV-18)
- USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Franklin (CV-13) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Franklin III (CV-13) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-224596 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons