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Ranger also incorporated a gallery deck between the flight deck and hangar deck. [10] The flight deck was a light superstructure sheathed in wood. Designed as a weight-saving measure, the light wood deck was found to be easily repairable. [11] Three elevators were provided to move aircraft between the flight deck and hangar deck.
With the commissioning of USS Ranger, the USN had 54,400 tons of carrier construction left under the Washington Treaty. Initially, the development plan for the class envisioned a 17,000-ton design that would allow the Navy to build three ships and stay within the 135,000-ton Washington Naval Treaty limit on aircraft carrier tonnage.
The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks , Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship.
Exhibits on the hangar deck, flight deck, and below deck allow visitors to climb into cockpits, take a tour of the officers' cabins, and explore dozens of restored aircraft and helicopters.
In April 1944, USS Ranger transported P-38 Lightning fighters and personnel to Casablanca and returned to New York with aircraft needing repair. The fleet carrier USS Wasp could carry up to 100 aircraft and, from her flight decks, with 11 of her own Wildcat fighters on patrol overhead, 47 Spitfire fighters took
The hangar was 424 feet (129.2 m) long and its width varied from 68 to 74 feet (20.7 to 22.6 m), constrained by the bulky funnel uptakes and boat compartments. The height of the hangar was not exceeded on an American aircraft carrier until the Forrestal-class ships appeared in the mid-1950s. Aircraft repair shops, 108-foot (32.9 m) long, were ...
Splinters from the exploding bomb killed most of the crews of the two 1.1-inch (28 mm) gun mounts aft of the island and on the flight deck below. Fragments piercing the flight deck hit three planes on the hangar deck, starting fires. One of the aircraft, a Yorktown Dauntless, was fully fueled and carrying a 1,000 pounds (450 kg) bomb. Prompt ...
The Forrestal class was the first completed class of "supercarriers" of the Navy, so called because of their then-extraordinarily high tonnage (75,000 tons, 25% larger than the post-World War II-era Midway class), full integration of the angled deck, very large island, and most importantly their extremely strong air wing (80–100 jet aircraft, compared to 65–75 for the Midway class and ...