
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
CV-6 USS Enterprise
- Yorktown class Fleet Carrier:
- Displacement: 19,800 tons
- Length: 827'4"
- Beam: 114'
- Draft: 28'6"
- Speed: 34 knots
- Armament: 8 5"/38 DP, 8x2 40mm, 6x4 40mm, 50 20mm, 85 planes (37 F6F(N), 18 TBM(n)
- Complement: 2,919
- Geared turbine engines, 4 screws, 120,000 shaft hp.
- Built at Newport News and commissioned 12 May 1938.
From her association with the escort carriers at Iwo Jima, Enterprise earned the nicknames "Enterprise Bay" and "Queen of the Jeeps". (Also known as the "Big E".)
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Hit by bomb during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24Aug42 |
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13 January 2012