USS Essex (CV-9)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/USS_Essex_%28CV-9%29
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:aircraft
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:USS_Yorktown
gptkb:USS_Hornet
gptkbp:aircraft_operated 90 aircraft
gptkbp:armament 5-inch guns
gptkbp:class Essex-class aircraft carrier
gptkbp:commissioned gptkb:1942
gptkbp:constructed_in gptkb:Newport_News_Shipbuilding
gptkbp:decommissioned gptkb:1975
gptkbp:displacement 27,100 tons
gptkbp:fate scrapped
gptkbp:home_port gptkb:Naval_Station_Norfolk
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USS Essex (CV-9)
gptkbp:launched 1943
gptkbp:length 888 feet
gptkbp:nickname The Fighting Essex
gptkbp:served_in gptkb:Korean_War
gptkb:Vietnam_War
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:sister_ship gptkb:USS_Yorktown_(CV-10)
gptkb:USS_George_Washington_(CVN-73)
gptkb:USS_John_F._Kennedy_(CV-67)
gptkb:USS_America_(CV-66)
gptkb:USS_Bon_Homme_Richard_(CV-31)
gptkb:USS_Coral_Sea_(CV-43)
gptkb:USS_Franklin_(CV-13)
gptkb:USS_George_H._W._Bush_(CVN-77)
gptkb:USS_Hancock_(CV-19)
gptkb:USS_Hornet_(CV-12)
gptkb:USS_Intrepid_(CV-11)
gptkb:USS_Kearsarge_(CV-33)
gptkb:USS_Midway_(CV-41)
gptkb:USS_Nimitz_(CVN-68)
gptkb:USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)
gptkb:USS_Ronald_Reagan_(CVN-76)
gptkb:USS_Shangri-La_(CV-38)
gptkb:USS_Tarawa_(CV-40)
gptkb:USS_Wasp_(CV-18)
gptkb:USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(CVN-72)
gptkb:USS_Harry_S._Truman_(CVN-75)
gptkb:USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_(CVN-71)
gptkb:USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)
gptkb:USS_Carl_Vinson_(CVN-70)
gptkb:USS_Dwight_D._Eisenhower_(CVN-69)
gptkb:USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)
gptkb:USS_Lake_Champlain_(CV-39)
gptkb:USS_Valley_Forge_(CV-45)
gptkb:USS_Gerald_R._Ford_(CVN-78)
gptkb:USS_Franklin_D._Roosevelt_(CV-42)
gptkb:USS_John_C._Stennis_(CVN-74)
gptkbp:speed 33 knots