Smoke Watch

  Sun 6/30/2013

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USS HANCOCK was one of the ESSEX - class aircraft carriers. Originally named TICONDEROGA, the carrier was renamed HANCOCK on May 1, 1943, becoming the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name. In the mid 1950s, the HANCOCK was the first carrier of the United States Fleet with steam catapults capable of launching high performance jets.

Decommissioned on January 30, 1976, the HANCOCK was stricken from the Navy list the following day, and sold for scrap by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) on September 1, 1976.

General Characteristics: Awarded: 1940
Keel laid: January 26, 1943
Launched: January 24, 1944
Commissioned: April 15, 1944
Decommissioned: January 30, 1976
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.
Propulsion system: 8 boilers
Propellers: four
Aircraft elevators: three
Arresting gear cables: four
Catapults: two
Length: 888.5 feet (270.8 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 191.9 feet (58.5 meters)
Beam: 101 feet (30.8 meters)
Draft: 30.8 feet (9.4 meters)
Displacement: approx. 44,700 tons full load
Speed: 33 knots
Planes: 80-100 planes
Crew: approx. 3448

Thanks to Hannah News USS Hancock CV/CVA-19 Association Volume 21 Number 1, September 2009.Letter to the Editor, A Good Watch On Hannah -- Crow's Nest by James W. "Bill" Franklin republished by permission of USS Hancock Association 23 August 2009 for allowing us to show this.

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Matt Keenan
CUSHING, WI
715.648.5000