USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)
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| Keel laying: | December 1, 1943 |
| Launch: | April 29, 1945 |
| Commissioning: | October 27, 1945 |
| Decommissioning: | September 30, 1977 |
| Whereabouts: | Disassembled |
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| Displacement : | 45,000 - 65,000 ts |
| Length: | 295 m |
| Width: | 34 m (waterline) |
| Draft: | 10 m |
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| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km / h) |
| Crew: | 4,500+ |
The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) was an aircraft carrier in the United States Navy . It belonged to the Midway class and was named after US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
history
After the keel was laid in late 1943, the ship was launched on April 29, 1945 at New York Shipbuilding and was christened the USS Coral Sea . It was only nine days later that it was renamed in honor of the president who died in mid-April 1945, and the third Midway-class carrier became the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) . The first voyage of the ship, which was put into service in October 1945, took the Franklin D. Roosevelt to Brazil , among other places , where she moored in Rio de Janeiro and represented the USA at the inauguration of President Eurico G. Dutra . Later in 1946 the ship sailed Caribbean and then European waters and ports. The porter was docked again as early as 1947. Some improvements have been made to the ship at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard . The next relocation to the Mediterranean followed in 1948.
In 1950, the Franklin D. Roosevelt first launched nuclear weapons on a US Navy ship , a concept that the US armed forces had fought a few years earlier with the suspension of the construction of the USS United States (CVA-58) . In the following years the carrier operated off the east coast of the USA and again in the Mediterranean. In 1954, she was finally docked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to go through the Service Life Extension Program . During this measure, her entire flight deck was redesigned. The cost of the renovation was 48 million US dollars. It was not until April 6, 1956 that the ship was launched again.
In the following months, test drives took place, then catapult and aircraft tests in 1957. In the Gulf of Maine , the Navy fired an SSM-N-8A Regulus from the flight deck of the Franklin D. Roosevelt for test purposes . Later the ship sailed again in the Mediterranean.
From August 1966 to January 1967, the Franklin D. Roosevelt carried out a mission in the Pacific for the only time. Your Carrier Air Wing flew attacks during the Vietnam War . The porter had to mourn victims when on November 4, 1966 a fire on board killed seven crew members.
In July 1968, the Franklin D. Roosevelt , again in the Norfolk Navy Shipyard, underwent a minor overhaul. After massive cost overruns in the modernization of its sister ship the USS Midway (CV-41) , the Navy saved money here. In January 1970 the Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to the Mediterranean. When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 , the carrier was on the station together with the USS Independence (CV-62) and the USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) in order to be able to carry out any necessary evacuations.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt was in such poor condition in the mid-1970s that it was finally decommissioned in 1977. It was the new USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) of the Nimitz-class replaced. The ship was therefore canceled from 1980 in Kearny , New Jersey .
Web links
- FDR on the sides of the Navy (English)
- History of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)