USS Hornet (CV-12)
Service
- as Hornet29 November 1943 — 26 June 1970644 days of the war
- Name
- USS Hornet
- Pennant / hull number
- CV-12
- Namesake
- Hornet
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Ordered
- 20 May 1940
- Laid down
- 3 August 1942
- Launched
- 30 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 29 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 15 January 1947
- Recommissioned
- 11 September 1953
- Struck
- 25 July 1989
- Fate
- Museum ship at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California
- Status
- Preserved
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)
The eighth Hornet (CV-12) was laid down 3 August 1942; launched 30 August 1943 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs. Frank M. Knox, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; and commissioned 29 November 1943, Captain Miles M. Browning in command.
Hornet conducted shakedown training off Bermuda before departing Norfolk 14 February 1944 to join the Fast Carrier Task Force 20 March at Majuro Atoll in the Marshalls. After lending air support to protect the invasion beaches in New Guinea, she conducted massive aerial raids against Japanese bases in the Caroline Islands and prepared to support the amphibious assault for the occupation of the Marianas Islands.
On 11 June 1944 Hornet launched raids on Tinian and Saipan. The following day she conducted heavy bombing attacks on Guam and Rota. During 15 to 16 June, she blasted enemy air fields at Iwo and Chichi Jima to prevent air attacks on troops invading Saipan in the Marianas. The afternoon of 18 June 1944 Hornet formed with the Fast Carrier Task Force to intercept the Japanese First Mobile Fleet, headed through the Philippine Sea for Saipan. The Battle of the Philippine Sea opened 19 June 1944 when Hornet launched strikes to destroy as many land-based Japanese planes as possible before the carrier-based Japanese aircraft came in.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Hornet VIII (CV-12)). 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 Franklin (CV-13)
- USS Hancock (CV-19)
- 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 Hornet (CV-12) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Hornet VIII (CV-12) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Hornet (CVS-12) 1969 Apollo 11 recovery cruise book available at Navysite.de — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons