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USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)


Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier [ 1944 ]



USS Ticonderoga CV-14 was yet-another aircraft carrier of the USN to see its live begin in the fighting of World War 2.



Authored By: Staff Writer | Last Edited: 06/08/2019 | Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com

Specifications



United States
Operators National flag of the United States
1944
Commissioned
United States
National Origin
Decommissioned, Out-of-Service
Project Status
3,448
Complement
Essex-class
Hull Class
24
Number-in-Class
SHORT-HULL GROUP: USS Essex (CV-9); USS Yorktown (CV-10); USS Intrepid (CV-11); USS Hornet (CV-12); USS Franklin (CV-13); USS Lexington (CV-16); USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); USS Wasp (CV-18); USS Bennington (CV-20); Bon Homme Richard (CV-31); Oriskany (CV-34) LONG-HULL GROUP: Ticonderoga (CV-14); Randolph (CV-15); USS Hancock (CV-19); USS Boxer (CV-21); USS Leyte (CV-32); USS Kearsarge (CV-33); USS Reprisal (CV-35); USS Antietam (CV-36); USS Princeton (CV-37); USS Shangri-La (CV-38); USS Lake Champlain (CV-39); USS Tarawa (CV-40); USS Valley Forge (CV-45); USS Iwo Jima (CV-46); USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)
Ships-in-Class


Flag Ship / Capital Ship
Serving in the fleet Flag Ship role or Capital Ship in older warship designs / terminology.


888.0 feet
(270.66 meters)
Length
93.0 feet
(28.35 meters)
Beam
28.6 feet
(8.72 meters)
Draught
27,100
tons
Displacement


8 x Boilers with 4 x Westinghouse geared steam turbines developing 150,000 horsepower to 4 x Shafts.
Propulsion
33.0 knots
(38.0 mph)
Surface Speed
1 knot = 1.15 mph; 1 nm = 1.15 mile; 1 nm = 1.85 km


4 x 5" (127mm) /38 caliber guns (twin-gunned turrets)
4 x 5" (127mm) /38 caliber guns (single-gunned turrets).
8 x 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft (AA) guns (quadruple-gunned turrets).
46 x 20mm Oerlikon AA guns (single-gunned turrets)


Up to 100 aircraft of various makes and models.


Military lapel ribbon for the Cold War period
Military lapel ribbon for early warship designs
Military lapel ribbon for the Falklands War
Military lapel ribbon for the 1991 Gulf War
Military lapel ribbon for the Korean War
Military lapel ribbon representing modern aircraft
Military lapel ribbon for the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Military lapel ribbon for the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Military lapel ribbon for the Vietnam War
Military lapel ribbon for the World War 1
Military lapel ribbon for the World War 2

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