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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive
Contributed by Mike Smolinski
USS HORNET (CV-12)
(later CVA-12
and CVS-12)    
Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Bravo - Golf - Charlie
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "JUDO"
CLASS - ESSEX (Short Hull)
Displacement 27,100 Tons, Dimensions, 872' (oa) x 93' x 28' 7" (Max)
Armament
12 x 5"/38AA, 32 x 40mm, 46 x 20mm, 82 Aircraft.
Armor, 4" Belt, 2 1/2" Hanger deck, 1 1/2" Deck, 1 1/2" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 150,000 SHP; Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 3448.
Operational and Building Data
Built by Newport News. Initially named Kearsarge; renamed to honor CV-8. Laid down 3 August 1942, launched 30 August 1943, commissioned 29 November 1943. Decommissioned to reserve 15 January 1947.
Briefly recommissioned in 1951, then underwent an SCB-27A modernization at the New York Naval Shipyard. Redesignated as
an "attack carrier" (CVA-12) on 1 October 1952. Recommissioned on 11 September 1953. Modernized again (SCB-125) in 1956, at
the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. In mid-1958, Hornet was converted to an antisubmarine warfare support carrier in the
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and redesignated CVS-12.
Decommissioned for the last time on 26 June 1970. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 25 July 1989 and sold for breaking
up. However, she was saved by the efforts of historically-minded citizens and donated to the Aircraft Carrier Hornet
Foundation for use as a museum on 26 May 1998; she is currently at Pier 3, Alameda Point, Alameda, Ca.
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