Pacific Eagles Database

Essex

Name Essex
Ship type CV
Nation United States
Officers 268
Men 2363
Design displacement 27,500t
Actual displacement 31,300t
Length 872ft
Beam 93ft
Draft 23ft
Aircraft
Catapults 2
Elevators 3
Arrestor cables 8
Flight deck length 862ft
Flight deck width ft
Propulsion Westinghouse geared turbines connected to 4 shafts; 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power 150,000 hp
Shafts 4
Speed 33kts
Range 20,000 miles

Class members

Name Commissioned Decommissioned Builder
Antietam (CV-36) Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Bennington (CV-20) Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bunker Hill (CV-17) Fore River Shipyard
Essex (CV-9) 1942-12-31 1947-01-09 Newport News
Franklin (CV-13) Newport News
Hancock (CV-19) Fore River Shipyard
Hornet (CV-12) Newport News
Intrepid (CV-11) Newport News
Lexington (CV-16) Fore River Shipyard
Randolph (CV-15) Newport News
Shangri-La (CV-38) Norfolk Navy Yard
Ticonderoga (CV-14) Newport News
Wasp (CV-18) Fore River Shipyard
Yorktown (CV-10) Newport News