USS Hornet
Also known as CV-8
1940 Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
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
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