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USS Coral Sea (CV/CVB/CVA-43), a Midway-class aircraft carrier, ... At nearly 70,000 tons, Coral Sea was the largest vessel ever scrapped up to that date. The company ...
USS Coral Sea (CVE-57) was an escort aircraft carrier named Alikula Bay during construction, renamed Coral Sea just before launching in 1943, and then renamed to Anzio a year later. It was finally decommissioned in 1946. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) was originally christened USS Coral Sea, but was renamed nine days after being launched in ...
Coral Sea was slowly scrapped at Baltimore as legal and environmental troubles continually delayed her fate. Midway spent five years in the mothball fleet at Bremerton, Washington before being taken over by a museum group. The ship is now open to the public at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The USS Coral Sea was one of the three Midway-class aircraft carriers from the United States Navy introduced in the latter part of World War II. It had a home in the Bay Area for ...
The USS Coral Sea was one of the three Midway-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, introduced in the latter part of World War II. It had a home in the Bay Area for nearly 15 years.
USS Coral Sea. 1 October – USS Coral Sea commissioned. [47] 7 November – USS Shangri-La decommissioned, placed in reserve. [18] 1948. January – HMS Furious sold for scrap. [14] [62] 25 February – USS Randolph decommissioned, placed in reserve. [18] 21 March – HMS Magnificent loaned to Canada and commissioned as HMCS Magnificent. [55]
In July 1968, the pre-production F-111B Bureau Number 151974, was used for carrier trials aboard USS Coral Sea. The evaluation was completed without issue. [30] Hughes continued Phoenix missile system development with four F-111Bs. [30] In all, two F-111Bs were lost in crashes and a third seriously damaged. [18]
Vietnam War: The T-333/Project 123K-class motor torpedo boat was damaged by gunfire by the heavy cruiser USS Newport News and guided-missile destroyer USS Robison and finished off by aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (all United States Navy) off Haiphong, North Vietnam. [50] T-349 Vietnam People's Navy