File:USS America in the Solent, Great Britain, December 1971.jpg
Summary
The massive bulk of the USS "AMERICA" anchored off Portsmouth in the Solent in the early 1970s.
Name: USS America Ordered: 25 November 1960 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Laid down: 9 January 1961 Launched: 1 February 1964 Commissioned: 23 January 1965 Decommissioned: 9 August 1996 Reclassified: CV-66 Struck: 9 August 1996 Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia Motto: Don't Tread On Me Nickname: The Big "A" Fate: Expended as a target 14 May 2005
General characteristics
Class & type: Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier Displacement: 61,174 long tons (62,156 t) (light), 83,573 long tons (84,914 t) (full load), 22,399 long tons (22,758 t) (dead) Length: 990 ft (300 m) (waterline), 1,048 ft (319 m) overall Beam: 248 ft (76 m) extreme, 129 ft (39 m) waterline Draft: 38 ft (12 m) (maximum), 37 ft (11 m) (limit) Installed power: 280,000 hp (210 MW) Propulsion: 4 × steam turbines
8 × boilers 4 × shafts
Speed: 34 kn (39 mph; 63 km/h) Complement: 502 officers, 4684 men Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-49 AN/SPS-48
Electronic warfare & decoys: AN/SLQ-32
Armament: Terrier missile (replaced with Sea Sparrow) Phalanx CIWS Aircraft carried: about 79
Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame.
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| current | 07:06, 16 January 2017 | | 3,762 × 2,736 (1.07 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>The massive bulk of the USS "AMERICA" anchored off Portsmouth in the Solent in the early 1970s. </p> <p>Name: USS America Ordered: 25 November 1960 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Laid down: 9 January 1961 Launched: 1 February 1964 Commissioned: 23 January 1965 Decommissioned: 9 August 1996 Reclassified: CV-66 Struck: 9 August 1996 Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia Motto: Don't Tread On Me Nickname: The Big "A" Fate: Expended as a target 14 May 2005 </p> <p>General characteristics </p> <p>Class & type: Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier Displacement: 61,174 long tons (62,156 t) (light), 83,573 long tons (84,914 t) (full load), 22,399 long tons (22,758 t) (dead) Length: 990 ft (300 m) (waterline), 1,048 ft (319 m) overall Beam: 248 ft (76 m) extreme, 129 ft (39 m) waterline Draft: 38 ft (12 m) (maximum), 37 ft (11 m) (limit) Installed power: 280,000 hp (210 MW) Propulsion: 4 × steam turbines </p> <pre>8 × boilers 4 × shafts </pre> <p>Speed: 34 kn (39 mph; 63 km/h) Complement: 502 officers, 4684 men Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-49 AN/SPS-48 </p> <pre>Electronic warfare & decoys: AN/SLQ-32 </pre> <p>Armament: Terrier missile (replaced with Sea Sparrow) Phalanx CIWS Aircraft carried: about 79 </p> <p>Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame. </p> |
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