USS Reprisal (CV-35)

Overview
Type	Aircraft carrier
Shipyard	New York Naval Shipyard
Keel laying	July 1, 1944
Whereabouts	Scrapped in 1949
Technical specifications
	Planned, never finished
displacement	27,100 ts
length	270.8 m
width	45 m
Draft	8.8 m

The USS Reprisal (CV-35) was a planned, but never of completed aircraft carrier of the Essex class of the United States Navy .

history

The Reprisal (in German: retaliation) was on July 1, 1944 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn paid to Kiel. The construction of the ship was stopped with the end of the Second World War on August 12, 1945. The hull was completed to 52 percent in 1946 was left without ceremony to water to the slipway of shipyard vacate. In the following years, the half-finished hull was used in the Chesapeake Bay for weapons and explosives tests. In the summer of 1949, plans to complete the ship were discarded and the hull was sold on August 2, 1949 to the Boston Metals Corporation in Baltimore for scrapping. The scrapping was completed in November 1949.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b navy.mil , as of September 21, 2007
^ Reprisal in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships , as of September 21, 2007

[navyarchive-1] vy.mil , as of September 21, 2007

[2] Reprisal in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships , as of September 21, 2007