Hornet (CVS 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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History of the HGRNET . In .these pages, you will read the story of the latest in a line of eight fight- ing ships that have borne the name I-IORNET to serve their country. She is an aircraft carrier, designed, equipped and manned to maintain control of the seas. She, and her forebearers have proven many times that they stand ready to defend our country, and our allies, against any agressor that would pose a challange. The HORNET is 889 feet long, displaces 43,000 tons and stands over 190 feet tall. Her sting consists of her aircraft: the SZF, designed to detect sub- marines from the air, the HSS, a versital helicopter that can hover over the submarine once detected, and track it with its dipping sonar ,' and the far-seeing AD5-W with her scanning radar to detect a submarine on the surface. History shows us that previous I-1ORNET's were equally willing to serve their country. HORNET's number one and two were ten-gun sloops. Number one saw duty in the Deleware Capes in 1777. She was destroyed by her own' crew to keep her from falling into enemy hands. Number two saw action during the Tripolitan War with Commodore Rodger's Squadron. She was sold out of service in 1806. The third I-IORNET was a brig-rigged sloop of war. She fought in the War of 1812 under the command of james Lawrence, who gave the Navy the famous motto, Don't give up the Ship. She was lost off Tampico, Mexico in 1829, and is supposed to have floundered in a heavy gale. .,,. Nw USS H0R1xiE1TT?f1X'1g8B.:.k'i3y.iE5bDb35lLtJf-1At3 -SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS g

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