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a legend was horn... decommissionai on July 20, 1 865. Tlie third ESSEX, a wooden-screw steamer, was- built by the United States at East Boston, Massachu- setts, and was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on October 3, 1 876. Regarded as one of the finest sliips of the fleet, ESSEX saw action with the North and South Atlantic Squadrons and on tlie Pacific and - .. -r-; Asian stations. She returned to New York via the Suez ■ ' •— ' ' ■ ' ™i ' i ■ ' canal and was placed out of commission in May 1889. She was the designated as a training sliip. ESSEX ■ spent the next 1 4 years at Annapwlis and then was lent to the Naval Militia of Ohio and evenhiaUy was assigned to the Naval Reserve of the State of Minnesota before being stricken from the record in 1930. Most recently, an aircraft carrier (CV 9) carried the name ESSEX into duty as the lead ship in a class of World War II aircraft carriers. Commissioned in December 1942, she reported to the Pacific Fleet following shakedown cruises and embarked on a series of victories that would take her to Tokyo Bay. As flagship of Task Force 1 4, C V 9 struck Wake Island in October 1 943, launched an attack on the Gilbert Islands and participated in her first amphibious assault (against Tarawa) in November, then moved on to the Marshall Islands, Truk and the Marianas, Saipan, Tinian and Guam in early 1944. After her first overhaul, she returned to the Pacific, continuing her frontline action. In late 1 944, for the first time in her far-ranging operations, ESSEX received injury. A kamikaze hit the port edge of her flight deck, landing among planes gassed for takeoff, causing extensive ■. • ' damage, killing 15 and wounding 44. In the closing days of the war, ESSEX took part in the final telling raids against the Japanese home islands. She was decommissioned in 1947, then modernized and recommissioned in 1951, with a new flight deck and streamlined superstructure. As flagship for Carrier Division 1, she was the first carrier to launch twin-engine Banshee jet fightere in support of U.N. troops in Korea. She was reclassified (CVA 9) on October 1, 1952. saw duty in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets in the late 1950s. In 1960, ESSEX was converted to an ASW support carrier, reclassified (CVS 9) and participated in various NATO exercises. On October 22, 1968 she recovered the Apollo 7 astronauts in the Atlantic. She was decommissioned July 30, 1969. Overher27yearcareer,ESSEXwascreditedwithsinking92anddaniaging217shipsand destroying i 1,564 aircraft. The Navy ' s top ace of World War II, Medal of Honor wiiiner Commander David McCampbell, flew from the deck of ESSEX, shooting down 34 enemy planes. She received the Presidential Unit Citation and 13 battle stars for World war n service and flie Navy Unit Commen- dation and four battle stars for action in Korea.
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