![]() USS Ticonderoga refueling off the coast of Vietnam in 1966
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Name | Ticonderoga |
Namesake | Battle of Ticonderoga |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 1 February 1943 |
Launched | 7 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 8 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 9 January 1947 |
Recommissioned | 1 October 1954 |
Decommissioned | 1 September 1973 |
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Stricken | 16 November 1973 |
Fate | Scrapped, 15 August 1974 |
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Class and type | Essex-class aircraft carrier |
Displacement | 27,100 long tons (27,500 t) standard |
Length | 888 feet (271 m) overall |
Beam | 93 feet (28 m) |
Draft | 28 feet 7 inches (8.71 m) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement | 3448 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 90–100 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.
The long hulled ships were often referred to as "Ticonderoga class" ships
Class: CVS 19 (Which was USS Hancock)