USS Bennington (CV-20)
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USS Bennington (CVS-20) as an ASW-carrier, 1965
Namesake: Battle of Bennington, 1777
Ordered: 15 December 1941
Builder: New York Naval Shipyard
Laid down: 15 December 1942
Launched: 28 February 1944
Commissioned: 6 August 1944
Decommissioned: 8 November 1946
Recommissioned: 13 November 1952
Decommissioned: 15 January 1970
Reclassified:
CV to CVA 1 October 1952
CVA to CVS 30 June 1959
Stricken: 20 September 1989
Fate: Scrapped, 1994
Class and type: Essex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
27,100 long tons (27,500 t) (standard)
36,380 long tons (36,960 t) (full load)
Length:
820 feet (249.9 m) (waterline)
872 feet (265.8 m) (o/a)
Beam: 93 ft (28.3 m) (waterline)
Draft: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) (full load)
Installed power:
8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
150,000 shp (110,000 kW)
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
Armament:
4 × twin, 4 × single 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
8 × quadruple 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
46 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns
Armor:
Waterline belt: 2.5–4 in (64–102 mm)
Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Hangar deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm)
Aircraft carried: 91–103 aircraft
USS Bennington (CV/CVA/CVS-20) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1952 to 1970. She was sold for scrap in 1994. ...”
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