The USS Wasp (CV-7)

It was commissioned on 25 April 1940.

Affected to the Atlantic fleet. He refitted Malta in April 1942 and then took the road to the Pacific where he participated in the landing of Guadalcanal. It was sunk on 15/9/1942 by the submarine I-19

Specifications : 

Type: Aircraft carrier
Crew: 1,800 men
Displacement: 14,700 tonnes
Length (outside turn): 226.00 meters
Length (flotation): 209.75 meters
Width: 24.62 meters
Draft: 6,09 meters
Machines: 2 turbines developing 75,000 horsepower
Speed: 29 ½ knots or 54.63 km / h
Armament: 8 guns of 127 mm in 8 turrets of 1
84 aircraft

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