Independence-class aircraft carrier

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USS San Jacinto on a training cruise off the east coast in 1944
Class overview
Builders	New York Shipbuilding
Operators	United States Navy  French Navy  Spanish Navy
Succeeded by	Saipan class
Built	1941–1943
In commission	1943–1989
Completed	9
Lost	1
Retired	8
General characteristics
Type	Light aircraft carrier
Displacement	11,000 tons (standard), 14,220 design, 15,100 design full load
Length	622 ft 6 in (189.74 m) overall 600 ft (180 m) waterline 552 ft (168 m) flight deck
Beam	71 ft 6 in (21.8 m) hull 109 ft 2 in (33.3 m) over flight deck and projections
Draught	26 ft
Propulsion	steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 565 PSI (850 F) four propellers 100,000 horsepower (75 MW)
Speed	31.5 knot (36 mph 58 km/h) maximum
Range	13,000 nautical miles (24,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	140 officer, 1,321 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	SC radar
Armament	26 × Bofors 40 mm guns (2 quad, 8 dual, 16 single, 10 Mk 51 directors)
Aircraft carried	Typical operational complement as of October 1944: 24 F6F Hellcat fighters 9 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers 1 J2F Duck utility amphibian sometimes carried

The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II.