U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt
CVA-42
1956
(Quadrant Q-21)
- Class: Midway - 3 large aircraft carriers of 1942
- Displacement: 51,000 tons (standard)
- Dimensions: 900' (wl) 968' (oa) x 113' (h) 174' (fd) x 36'
- Machinery: 4 steam turbines (General Electric); 212,000 shp; 4 shafts
- Speed: 33 knots
- Guns: 10-5"/54, 22-3"/70
- Aircraft: 80+
- Complement: 2,510
- Builder: New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY
- Keel Laid: 1 Dec 1943
- Launched: 29 Apr 1945
- Commissioned: 27 Oct 1945
- Notes: Originally completed as a straight deck carrier like sister USS Midway. Shown here after her SCB-110 conversion carried out 1954-56. One tour off Vietnam in 1966. Another modernisation was carried out in 1968. Stricken in 1977 and scrapped in 1978.
- F2H Banshee
- F3H Demon
- F4D Skyray
- F7U Cutlass
- F11F Tiger
- AJ1 Savage
- AD4 Skyraider
- A3D Skywarrior
- A4D Skyhawk
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