Yorktown Class comprised of ENTERPRISE, HORNET, YORKTOWN
This type of aircraft carrier was developed on the line of the Ranger aircraft carrier, but they proved more satisfying in all the qualities. They were the most famous American aircraft carriers of the 2. World War.
CV 6 USS. ENTERPRISE:
- Launched: 3.10.1936
- Shipyard: Newport News
- Displacement: 19.800 tons
- Dimensions: 807,72 x 77,72 x 19,81 feet
- Machinery: 9 Babcock & Wilcox; Parsons gear turbines: H.P: 120.000 = 33 knots
- Armament: eight DCA canons of 130 (8x1); sixteen of 28,6 DCA, 3 catapults; 81 planes
- Crew: 1889 (in time of war: 2919)
- Battles: Miday, Landing in Guadlcanal, Easr Salomone (damaged), Santa Cruz (damaged), Guadalcanal battle, Gilbert-Islands, Kwajalein, Trukraid, Hollandia, Saipan, Philippines Sea, Palau, Leyte, Iwo, Okinawa (attackted by Kamikazes on 11.5.45 and 13.5.45)
- Fate: sold to Lipsette Inc.: (N.Y.) on 27.6.58 and arrived in Kearny 21.8.58 to be demolished.