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USS TICONDEROGA was the sixth ESSEX - class aircraft carrier and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name. USS TICONDEROGA was reclassified as CVA 14 on October 1, 1952, and on October 21, 1969, became CVS 14.
On September 1, 1973, the TICONDEROGA was decommissioned after a board of inspection and survey found her to be unfit for further naval service. Her name was struck from the Navy list on November 16, 1973, and the carrier was sold for scrap on September 1, 1975.
General Characteristics: | Awarded: 1940 |
Keel laid: February 1, 1943 | |
Launched: February 7, 1944 | |
Commissioned: May 8, 1944 | |
Decommissioned: January 9, 1947 | |
Recommissioned: January 31, 1952 | |
Decommissioned: April 4, 1952 | |
Recommissioned: September 11, 1954 | |
Decommissioned: November 16, 1973 | |
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va. | |
Propulsion system: 8 boilers | |
Propellers: four | |
Aircraft elevators: three | |
Arresting gear cables: four | |
Catapults: two | |
Length: 888.5 feet (270.8 meters) | |
Flight Deck Width: 191.9 feet (58.5 meters) | |
Beam: 101 feet (30.8 meters) | |
Draft: 30.8 feet (9.4 meters) | |
Displacement: approx. 41,700 tons full load | |
Speed: 33 knots | |
Planes: 80-100 planes | |
Crew: approx. 3448 as CVS: 115 offiers and 1500 enlisted | |
Armament: see down below |
Crew List:
This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS TICONDEROGA. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
USS TICONDEROGA Cruise Books:
About the different armament:
Accidents aboard USS TICONDEROGA:
Date | Where | Events |
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November 21, 1955 | Mediterranean | Six sailors are killed as a result of a jet landing mishap on the deck of the USS TICONDEROGA. |
July 23, 1958 | off California | A fuel tank accidentally falls from a FJ4B Fury fighter being launched from the USS TICONDEROGA, killing two. |
January 27, 1961 | Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif. | USS TICONDEROGA suffers a brief fire when a diesel generator blows up while the ship is in port. |
December 5, 1965 | western Pacific | While the USS TICONDEROGA is en route from operations off Vietnam to Yokosuka, Japan, an A-4E aircraft of VA-56 loaded with one B43 nuclear weapon goes overboard. The aircraft was being rolled from the number 2 hangar bay to the number 2 elevator when it rolled off the elevator with the pilot LTJG D. M. Webster and the bomb and sank in 2700 fathoms of water. A search fails to find the pilot. The Department of Defense states this accident took place "more than 500 miles from land" when it reveals the accident in 1981. However, Navy documents show the accident occurred about 80 miles east of the Japanese Ryuku Island chain and 250 miles south of Kyushu Island, Japan, and about 200 miles east of Okinawa. |
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