USS Leyte (CV-32)
Service
- as Leyte11 April 1946 — 15 May 1959
- Name
- USS Leyte
- Pennant / hull number
- CV-32
- Namesake
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Laid down
- 21 February 1944
- Launched
- 23 August 1945
- Commissioned
- 11 April 1946
- Decommissioned
- 15 May 1959
- Fate
- Scrapped, September 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 27,100 long tons (27,535 t)
- Length
- 270.66 m (888 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28.35 m (93 ft)
- Draught
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 3,448
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Named for the Battle for Leyte Gulf (23–26 October 1944). The first Leyte retained the name she carried when captured by the Navy, the second was named for the island in the Philippines.
Crown Point (CV-32) was laid down on 21 February 1944, at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; renamed Leyte on 8 May 1945; launched on 23 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Alice M. [Dillon] Mead, wife of U.S. Senator James M. Mead, New York (D); and commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va., on 11 April 1946, Capt. Henry F. MacComsey in command.
Personnel shortages having impacting the Navy’s being able to fully man its ships delayed Leyte from carrying out her shakedown, but she ultimately departed Hampton Roads, Va., on 30 August 1946 for Quonset Point, R.I., where she embarked Carrier Air Group (CVG) 18. After embarkation, she carried out her carrier qualification landings, then shaped a course for Cuba.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Leyte III (CV-32)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 × geared steam turbines
- 4 × shafts
- Power
- 8 × boilers
- 150000 shp
- Armament
- 12 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns
- 32 × Bofors 40 mm guns
- 46 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- Armour
- Belt: 4 in
- Hangar deck: 2.5 in
- Deck: 1.5 in
- Conning tower: 1.5 inch
- Aircraft
- 90–100 aircraft
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 Hornet (CV-12)
- USS Intrepid (CV-11)
- USS Kearsarge (CV-33)
- USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)
- USS Lexington (CV-16)
- 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 Leyte (CV-32) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Leyte III (CV-32) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1999.272.027 [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons