The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a class of aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy during World War II.
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| - The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a class of aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy during World War II.
- {{Infobox ship |Ship image=File:USS Philippine Sea.jpg |Ship caption=USS Philippine Sea in 1955 |module= Class overview Name: Essex-class aircraft carrierBuilders: Newport News ShipbuildingFore River ShipyardBrooklyn Navy YardPhiladelphia Naval ShipyardNorfolk Naval ShipyardOperators: United States NavyPreceded by: Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, Wasp-class aircraft carrierSucceeded by: Midway-class aircraft carrierCost: 68–78 million USD (1942), ~1 billion USD (2011)Built: 1941–1950 In commission: 1942–1991Planned: 32Completed: 24Cancelled: 8Active: 0Retired: 24Preserved: USS Yorktown (CV-10)}USS Intrepid (CV-11)USS Hornet (CV-12)USS Lexington (CV-16) |module2= |}
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| - * 12 × 5-inch (127 mm) /38 caliber guns
* 32 to 72 × 40 mm Bofors guns
* 55 to 76 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
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| - *1 × SK air-search radar
*1 × SC air-search radar
*2 × SG surface-search radar
*1 × SM fighter-direction radar
*2 × Mk 4 fire-control radar
*2 × Mk 12 fire-control radar
*2 × Mk 22 height-finding radar
*10–17 × Mk 51 AA directors
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| - 68(xsd:integer)
- ~1 billion USD
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| - Westinghouse geared turbines connected to 4 shafts; 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
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| - Basic class design was repeatedly modified, chiefly by additional AA and radar. Transverse hangar-deck catapult in CV-10, 11, 12, 17, 18 . CV-9 commissioned with no flight deck catapults; CV-10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20 with one; all others with two. CV-34 completed postwar to much-altered design.
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| - STS hangar deck; STS 4th deck; 3.5 to 4 in Class B + .75 in STS belt; Class B transverse bulkheads
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| - The Essex-class aircraft carrier was a class of aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy during World War II.
- {{Infobox ship |Ship image=File:USS Philippine Sea.jpg |Ship caption=USS Philippine Sea in 1955 |module= Class overview Name: Essex-class aircraft carrierBuilders: Newport News ShipbuildingFore River ShipyardBrooklyn Navy YardPhiladelphia Naval ShipyardNorfolk Naval ShipyardOperators: United States NavyPreceded by: Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, Wasp-class aircraft carrierSucceeded by: Midway-class aircraft carrierCost: 68–78 million USD (1942), ~1 billion USD (2011)Built: 1941–1950 In commission: 1942–1991Planned: 32Completed: 24Cancelled: 8Active: 0Retired: 24Preserved: USS Yorktown (CV-10)}USS Intrepid (CV-11)USS Hornet (CV-12)USS Lexington (CV-16) |module2= |} The Essex class was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, which constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships with 24 vessels built in both "short-hull" and "long-hull" versions. Thirty-two were originally ordered; however as World War II wound down, six were canceled before construction, and two were canceled after construction had begun. No Essex class ships were lost to enemy action, despite several vessels sustaining very heavy damage. The Essex-class carriers were the backbone of the U.S. Navy's combat strength during World War II from mid-1943 on, and along with the addition of the three Midway-class carriers just after the war continued to be the heart of U.S. Naval strength until the supercarriers began to come into the fleet in numbers during the 1960s and 1970s.
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