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USS Bonhomme Richard (1765), formerly Duc de Duras, was a frigate built in France and placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones in 1779. A Bon Homme Richard was to have been a Wampanoag -class cruiser built at the Washington Navy Yard. Construction was canceled in 1864. USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-10), was an aircraft carrier renamed Yorktown in ...
18 × Grumman TBF Avenger. USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was the 14th of the 24 Essex -class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, the first one being named for John Paul Jones 's famous Revolutionary War frigate by the same name.
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) was a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy commissioned on 15 August 1998. Like the previous five Wasp-class ships, Bonhomme Richard was designed to embark, deploy, and land elements of a Marine Corps landing force in amphibious assault operations by helicopter, landing craft, and amphibious vehicle, and, if needed, to act as a light ...
The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of ...
The USS Bonhomme Richard caught fire in July while it was in port in San Diego undergoing upgrades for the new Marine Corps F-35B jets, a blaze that burned for four days before finally being ...
The Wasp-class is a class of landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy.Based on the Tarawa class, with modifications to operate more advanced aircraft and landing craft, the Wasp-class is capable of transporting almost the full strength of a United States Marine Corps Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), and landing them in hostile territory via ...
Bon Homme Richard: Essex: 26 November 1944 2 July 1971 26 years, 218 days Scrapped in 1992 [41] CV-32 Leyte: Essex (extended bow) 11 April 1946 15 May 1959 13 years, 34 days Scrapped in 1970 [11] CV-33 Kearsarge: Essex (extended bow) 2 May 1946 15 January 1970 23 years, 258 days Scrapped in 1974 [42] CV-34 Oriskany: Essex (extended bow) 25 ...
The Essex class is a retired class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. The 20th century's most numerous class of capital ship, the class consisted of 24 vessels, which came in "short-hull" and "long-hull" versions. Thirty-two ships were ordered, but as World War II wound down, six were canceled before construction, and two were ...