USS Iwo Jima (CV-46)
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | Aircraft carrier |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | January 1945 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Whereabouts | Scrapped in 1945 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Planned, never finished | |
| displacement |
27,100 ts |
| length |
270.8 m |
| width |
45 m |
| Draft |
8.8 m |
The USS Iwo Jima (CV-46) was a planned but never completed Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy . The name is derived from the island of Iwojima off Japan, where the Battle of Iwojima took place during World War II .
history
The aircraft carrier was laid down as Crown Point in January 1945 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News , Virginia . During construction, the name was changed to USS Iwo Jima in honor of the soldiers involved in the Battle of Iwojima . The construction of the ship was stopped with the end of the Second World War on August 12, 1945. The unfinished hull of the carrier was on the slipway completely canceled the shipyard in the coming months and scrapped.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Iwo Jima in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships , as of September 21, 2007