USS Franklin



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displacement: 27,100 tons
length: 872 feet
beam: 93 feet; extreme width at flight deck: 147½ feet
draft: 28 feet 7 inches
speed: 33 knots
complement: 3,448 crew
armament: 12 five-inch guns
class: Essex

Commissioned:  January 31, 1944
Decommissioned:  Feburary 7, 1947 and then reclassified

For full detail of the USS Franklin see the Official Website of the United States Navy.

 


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