USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Ticonderoga.

USS Ticonderoga
USS Ticonderoga refueling off the coast of Vietnam in 1966
History
United States
NameTiconderoga
NamesakeBattle of Ticonderoga
BuilderNewport News Shipbuilding
Laid down1 February 1943
Launched7 February 1944
Commissioned8 May 1944
Decommissioned9 January 1947
Recommissioned1 October 1954
Decommissioned1 September 1973
Reclassified
  • CVA-14, 1 October 1952
  • CVS-14, 21 October 1969
Stricken16 November 1973
FateScrapped, 15 August 1974
General characteristics
Class and typeEssex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement27,100 long tons (27,500 t) standard
Length888 feet (271 m) overall
Beam93 feet (28 m)
Draft28 feet 7 inches (8.71 m)
Installed power
  • 8 × boilers
  • 150,000 shp (110 MW)
Propulsion
Speed33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement3448 officers and enlisted
Armament
Armor
  • Belt: 4 in (102 mm)
  • Hangar deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
  • Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)
  • Conning tower: 1.5 inch
Aircraft carried90–100 aircraft

USS Ticonderoga (CV/CVA/CVS-14) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named after the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in the American Revolutionary War. Ticonderoga was commissioned in May 1944, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning five battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War, but was very active in the Vietnam War, earning three Navy Unit Commendations, one Meritorious Unit Commendation, and 12 battle stars.

Ticonderoga differed somewhat from the earlier Essex-class ships in that she was 16 ft (4.9 m) longer to accommodate bow-mounted anti-aircraft guns. Most subsequent Essex-class carriers were completed to this "long-hull" design and were referred to as the Ticonderoga class.[1] At the end of her career, after a number of modifications, she was said to be in the Hancock class according to the Naval vessel register.[2]

Ticonderoga was decommissioned in 1973 and sold for scrap in 1975.

  1. ^ St. John, Philip (1999). USS Essex (CV/CVA/CVS-9). Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company. p. 10. ISBN 1-56311-492-5. The long hulled ships were often referred to as "Ticonderoga class" ships
  2. ^ "Ticonderoga (CVS 14) (ex-CVA 14) ASW Support Aircraft Carrier". Naval Vessel Register. 28 December 2001. Retrieved 20 March 2015. Class: CVS 19 (Which was USS Hancock)