Franklin D Roosevelt (CV 42) - Naval Cruise Book

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E I i -. - V ff - -ti 'af 'f ug -- -- ------ - V ..f f-.:.f. , . l The United States Ship Franklin D. Roosevelt The awesome U. S. naval construction program of World War ll produced a fleet of the finest ships to ever sail in any Navy in the world. These included the IOWA class battleships, ESSEX class carriers, BALTIMORE class heavy cruisers, and FLETCHER class destroyers. lt was a logical progression then that produced a pedigree of combatant ships in the latter part of the war. One of these ships was the large battle carrier to be christened FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Ordered on January 21, 1943 and laid down at the New York Navy Yard December 19, 1943 as the USS CORAL SEA, she was the second ship of the MIDWAY class. Capitalizing on wartime experience, she was constructed with the most advanced damage control innovations possible, including an armored flight deck and extensive internal subdivision not found on any carrier or other combatant before or since. Her original length was 968 feet, which with an extreme beam at the waterline of 121 feet, and a maximum draft of 34 feet gave a full load displacement of 60,100 tons. Her twelve Babcock and Wilcox boilers fed four General Electric engines developing a total of 212,000 shaft horsepower for a design speed ot 33 knots. With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal requested of President Truman that the hull of the carrier CORAL SEA CCVB 425 bechristened in honor of the former President. With the approval of President Truman, Mrs. John H. Towers, the ship's sponsor and wife of VADM John H. Towers, Deputy Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, christened the FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT on April 29, 1945. She was commissioned on Navy Day, October 27, 1945. The principal speaker at the ceremonies was President Harry Truman. Her first Commanding Officer was Captain Apollo Soucek. At this time the ship was armed with eighteen single 5 inch 54 caliber gun mounts, twenty-one quadruple 40 mm anti-aircraft mounts, and numerous 20 mm guns. The ship's complement was 379 officers and 3,725 enlisted men with the air wing embarked. She was equipped with two hydraulic catapults forward.

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