USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)
Service
- as Philippine Sea11 May 1946 — 28 December 1958
- Name
- USS Philippine Sea
- Pennant / hull number
- CV-47
- Namesake
- Battle of the Philippine Sea
- Builder
- Fore River Shipyard
- Ordered
- 14 June 1943
- Laid down
- 19 August 1944
- Launched
- 5 September 1945
- Commissioned
- 11 May 1946
- Decommissioned
- 28 December 1958
- Struck
- 1 December 1969
- Fate
- Scrapped, 23 March 1971 (1971)
- 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)
Philippine Sea (CV-47) was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass. 19 August 1944; launched 5 September 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Albert B. Chandler; and commissioned 11 May 1946, Capt. D.S. Cornwell in command.
In June the ship went to Quonset Point, R.I., for initial training of the crew. By September 1946, she began her shakedown cruise in the Caribbean area with Air Group 20 embarked.
Upon returning from shakedown exercises, Philippine Sea was ordered back to Boston to prepare for the Navy's Antarctic Expedition, Operation "Highjump." On 29 January 1947, in the Antarctic region of the South Pacific, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his party were flown from the ship to begin their polar explorations from Little America.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Philippine Sea I (CV-47)). 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 Leyte (CV-32)
- USS Oriskany
- 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 Philippine Sea (CV-47) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Philippine Sea I (CV-47) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: PH1 D.L. Lash, U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-18429 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons