United States Navy — Aircraft carrier
IX-81
USS Sable
Service
- as Greater Buffalo8 May 1943 — 7 November 1945848 days of the war
USS Sable
Particulars
- Name
- USS Sable
- Pennant / hull number
- IX-81
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
- Launched
- 27 October 1924
- Commissioned
- 8 May 1943
- Decommissioned
- 7 November 1945
- Struck
- 28 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold on 7 July 1948 for scrapping. (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 6,584 long tons (6,690 t)
- Length
- 158.1 m (518.7 ft)
- Beam
- 17.68 m (58 ft)
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
USS Sable was a aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number IX-81. She was built by American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio. Launched on 27 October 1924, she entered service on 8 May 1943.
Displacement was 6,584 long tons. She measured 158.1 m (519 ft) long with a beam of 17.7 m (58 ft). Her designed speed was 18 knots.
Her machinery developed 100 kW.
She was in commission for 848 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 7 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 28 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 7 July 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Sidewheel
- 32.75 ft diameter
- 11 floats (paddles) that were 14.833 ft long and 5 ft wide
- 30 revolutions per minute
- Power
- Inclined compound steam engine
- Piston #1: 66 in
- Piston #2: 96 in
- Piston #3: 96 in
- Stroke length: 108 in
- 9 boilers
- 3 × 100 kW turbo generators for ship lighting and operation.
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Sable on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy National Naval Aviation Museum photo NNAM.2003.220.003 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons