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USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. Commissioned eight days after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest warship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal .
The Midway class was a class of three United States Navy aircraft carriers. The lead ship, USS Midway, was commissioned in September 1945 and decommissioned in 1992. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was commissioned in October 1945, and taken out of service in 1977. [2] USS Coral Sea was commissioned in April 1947, and decommissioned in 1990. [3]
1945 – 1992 [25] This class was one of the longest lived carrier designs in history. First commissioned in late 1945, the lead ship of the class, USS Midway was not decommissioned until 1992, shortly after seeing service in the Gulf War. [25] Six were planned; three were built including USS Coral Sea and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. [25]
CVB-41 Midway: Midway (lead ship) 10 September 1945 11 April 1992 46 years, 214 days Preserved at the USS Midway Museum—San Diego, California, USA [46] CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Midway: 27 October 1945 1 October 1977 31 years, 339 days Scrapped in 1978 [47] CVB-43 Coral Sea: Midway: 1 October 1947 26 April 1990 42 years, 207 days Scrapped ...
USS Midway (AG-41), which was named Oritani and then Tyree before being chartered as a general auxiliary in 1942, renamed to Panay in 1943, and returned to its owner in 1946; USS Midway (CVE-63), which was an escort carrier commissioned in 1943, renamed St. Lo one year later, and sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf shortly afterward
Renamed USS St. Lo to free name for CV-41 Midway US Navy: CVB-41 Midway: Fleet carrier 1945–1992 Museum in San Diego, CA: Minas Gerais Brazilian Navy: A11 Colossus: Light fleet carrier CATOBAR: 1960–2001 [notes 7] Mindoro US Navy: CVE-120 Commencement Bay: Escort carrier 1945–1955 Minsk Russian Navy Soviet Navy: 025/011 Kiev: Aircraft ...
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