CV-41 Midway

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Midway, [CV].

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 20 March 1945.

Commission date: 10 September 1945.

Decommission date: 11 April 1992.

Displacement ( tons ): 51.000 standard, 64.000 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 298,4 x 36,9 x 10,8

Main machinery: 12 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 4 x Westinghouse geared steam turbines ( 212.000 hp ), 4 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): +30.

Complement: 4.502 ( 362 officers ).

Guns: As built carried 5 x 127mm, 84 x 40mm, 28 x 20mm. At retirement 2 x 20mm Mk15 CIWS.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk25 launchers ( RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles ).

Radar: Air Search: 1 x SPS-48C 3D, 1 x SPS-49, 1 x SPS-43; Surface Search: 1 x SPS-10; Navigation: 1 x SPS-65V; Fire Control: 2 x Mk115.

Aviation: At retirement aproximatelly 75.

Callsign: NIIW ()

Comment: An exceptional ship in many ways, nowadays serving as a floating museum at San Diego pier. Naming a class of five, although only three built in the end. Comissioned a week after the end of WWII it was the world´s largest ship until 1955, so big it could not transit the Panama Canal. She saw action in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, and had very important roles in other minor conflicts and crisis. Two main conversion works gave her an angled flight deck, steam catapults, electronics and lift rearrangerements. After 47 years of active service the ship was decomissioned in 1992.

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