USS Reprisal (CV-30)
Service
- as San Jacinto15 November 1943 — 1 March 1947657 days of the war
- Name
- USS Reprisal
- Pennant / hull number
- CV-30
- Namesake
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Builder
- New York Shipbuilding Corporation
- Ordered
- 2 November 1941
- Laid down
- 26 October 1942
- Launched
- 26 September 1943
- Commissioned
- 15 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1 March 1947
- Struck
- 1 June 1970
- Fate
- Scrapped, 15 December 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
- 1,549
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
USS Reprisal was a Independence-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number CV-30. The ship was named after Battle of San Jacinto. Her keel was laid at New York Shipbuilding Corporation on 26 October 1942. She entered service on 15 November 1943, having been launched on 26 September 1943.
20 ships of the class were built. The Saipan-class aircraft carrier followed.
She displaced 11,000 long tons. She measured 189.7 m (623 ft) long with a beam of 21.8 m (71 ft). Her designed speed was 31.6 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,549. Her main battery was of 40 mm (1.6 in) calibre.
She carried 45 aircraft.
She was in commission for 657 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 March 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1970.
She was broken up for scrap on 15 December 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 28 × Bofors 40 mm guns
- 40 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- Aircraft
- 45 aircraft
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 Dayton (CL-78)
- 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 San Jacinto (CVL-30)
- USS Tallahassee (CL-61)
- USS Wilmington (CL-79)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Reprisal (CV-30) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author , photographed from a Squadron ZP-14 blimp. — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-212799 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons