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Key facts
- Name
- Hornet
- Namesake
- USS Hornet (1805)
- Ordered
- 30 March 1939
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding Company
- Laid down
- 25 September 1939
- Launched
- 14 December 1940
- Sponsored by
- Annie Reid Knox
- Commissioned
- 20 October 1941
- Stricken
- 13 January 1943
- Nickname s
- "Happy Hornet", and "Horny Maru"
- Honors and awards
- 4 × battle stars
- Fate
- Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands , 27 October 1942
- Class type
- Yorktown -class aircraft carrier
- Displacement
- 20,000 long tons (20,321 t) (standard) 25,500 long tons (25,909 t) (full load)
- Length
- 824 ft 9 in (251.38 m) (overall)
- Beam
- 83 ft 3 in (25.37 m) (waterline) 114 ft (35 m) (overall)
- Draft
- 28 ft (8.5 m) full load
- Installed power
- 9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 120,000 shp (89,000 kW)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aircraft carrier
- Operator
- United States Navy
- Mass
- 25600
- Manufacturer
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Conflict
- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- Image
- USS Hornet (CV-8) underway in Hampton Roads on 27 October 1941.jpg
- Width
- 34.7
- Length
- 235
- Speed
- 32.5
- Significant event
- keel laying
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- different from
- USS Hornet
- short name
- Hornet
- Commons category
- USS Hornet (CV-8)
- vessel class
- Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
- Commons gallery
- USS Hornet (CV-8)
- shipping port
- Pearl Harbor
- location of creation
- Newport News
- pennant number
- CV-8
- nominal power output
- 120000
- beam
- 25.4
- draft
- 8.5
- maximum capacity
- 2919
- vehicle range
- 12500
- country of registry
- United States
- name
- USS Hornet
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Encyclopedic overview
USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid. In the Solomon Islands campaign, she was involved in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, where she was irreparably damaged by enemy torpedo and dive bombers. Faced with an approaching Japanese surface force, Hornet was abandoned and later torpedoed and sunk by approaching Japanese destroyers. Hornet was in service for one year and six days, and was the last U.S. fleet carrier ever sunk by enemy fire. For these actions, she was awarded four service stars and a citation for the Doolittle Raid in 1942, and her Torpedo Squadron 8 received a Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism for its performance at the Battle of Midway.
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