Aircraft carrier class of the US Navy
Class overview Name Long Island -class escort carrierOperators Preceded by N/A Succeeded by Bogue -class escort carrierCompleted 2 Retired 2 Scrapped 2 General characteristics Type Escort carrier Length
404 ft 2.4 in (123.200 m) (length of flight deck)[1]
465 ft (142 m) wl
492 ft (150 m) oa
Beam 69.9 ft (21.3 m) Draft 25 ft 2 in (7.67 m) Installed power 8,500 hp (6,300 kW)[1] Propulsion Speed 16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) Range 10,000 nmi (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)[1] Complement 856[1] Sensors and SC radar Aircraft carried
Hangar Capacity: 16Flight Deck Storage: 46 Aviation facilities 1 × elevator
The Long Island -class escort carriertype C3-class merchant ships.
The first ship of the class—USS Long Island , originally AVG-1, later ACV-1 then CVE-1—was launched on 11 January 1940, and served in the United States Navy through World War II .
The second and last ship of the class—HMS Archer (D78) —was launched on 14 December 1939, and served in the Royal Navy through World War II . It is also listed in U.S. Navy records as BAVG-1; the "B" presumably stood for "British".[2] [3] [4] [5]
^ a b c d Ford, Roger (2001) The Encyclopedia of Ships , pg. 392. Amber Books, London. ISBN 978-1-905704-43-9
^ "Moore-McCormack, Mormacland" . Moore-McCormack. Retrieved 18 March 2009 .^ "A history of HMS Archer" . Royal Navy Research Archive. Retrieved 18 March 2009 .^ Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships . London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. 425. ISBN 1-85044-275-4 ((cite book )): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )^ "Sun Shipbuilding, Chester PA" . Ship Building History. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2010 .
Bibliography
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . The entry can be found here .
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