USS Iwo Jima (CV-46)

USS Iwo Jima (CV-46) was a planned Essex-class aircraft carrier for the United States Navy. Newport News Shipbuilding[1] began construction of the vessel in early 1945, but on August 12, with the end of World War II, the Navy cancelled the contract.[2] She remained in an unfinished state until 1949, when her hull was scrapped in the slipway in Newport News before ever being launched.[3]

Iwo Jima under construction
History
United States
Name: Iwo Jima
Namesake: Battle of Iwo Jima
Ordered: 14 June 1943
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co
Laid down: 1945
Launched: Cancelled prior to launching
Stricken: 1949
Fate: Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type: Essex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
Length:
Beam: 93 ft (28.3 m) (waterline)
Draft: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) (full load)
Propulsion: 4 × shafts; 4 × geared steam turbines
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range: 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 2,600 officers and enlisted men
Armament:
Armor:
Aircraft carried: 91–103 aircraft


References

Bibliography

  • Polmar, Norman (2008). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Volume II 1946-2006. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books. ISBN 9781574886658.

Notes

  1. Polmar, p. 470
  2. Polmar, p. 5
  3. Polmar, p. 6
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