) 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 91–103 aircraft |
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]
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.