Hornet (CVS 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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With the end of the War with Spain, HORNET was ordered out of commission at the Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia on October 18, 1898. ln December of the sam h ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' e year s e was given to the North Carolina Naval Militia for drill and instructional purposes Th SEVENTH C N C . .l'lORNET's keel was laid on September 25, 1939 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock ompany, ewport News, Virginia. Authorized by the Naval Expansion Act of May 17 1939 she was laun h d D b 14 1940 . l I . . i , , c e on ecem er , and placed. in commission at the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk, Virginia on October 20, 1941, under the command of Captain Mark Andrew Mrtscher. SEVENTH HORNET--The first carrier to bear the name HORNET. Just prior of the sinking during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, 1942. During the bombing raid against Tokyo on April 18, 1942, Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle and his flyers were taking off from a uShangri Lan somewhere in the Pacific. Unknown to the rest of the world, this 'cShangri Lan was the flight deck of HORNET, which had carried the twin-engine bombers to within 800 miles of the Japanese coast. fThe USS SHANGRI LA QCV- 38J was later named to commemorate this event and the HORNETJ. - ln the battle of the Santa Cruz lsland on October 26, 1942, HORNET took her last stand against the enemy and parished in a maze of blazing gunfire. ln the final analysis, however, the Japanese themselves couldn't sink her. Using bucket brigades after the firefighting apparatus was destroyed, HORNET was taken in tow and led from the battle area. But before she could be led safely away, subsequent attacks damaged her still more. During the height of one of the attacks, a 1,000 pound bomb pierced the HORNET,s deck and entered into a room beside the ordnance compartment. An ordnance chief entered the compartment, in the dark, and disarmed the bomb. Eventually, after 10 hours of attack, the order was given to torpedo HORNET to preclude any possibility of her falling into enemy hands. After other vessels rescued all but 129 of her compliment of 2900 men, two destroyers torpedoed and sank her. r EIGHTH HORNET-The present carrier, a 43,000 ton ship, commissioned on November 29, 1943, as she appeared in the later months of World War ll. When news came that the seventh HORNET had been sunk, the Navy decided to generate the name to CVA-12 that was originally to be called KEARSARGE. On August 30, 1943, ten months after the CV-8 had been lost, the EIGHTH HORNET was launched. In the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia on November 29, 1943, the EIGHTH and present HORNET was com- missioned. Arriving at Pearl Harbor on March 4, 1944, she became part of Task Force Fifty Eight. Earning the Presidential Unit Cita- tion, she also receved seven battle stars on the Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal for action from March 1944 to January 1945. A HORNET participated in raids on Palau, Yap, Truk, the capture and occupation of Saipan, and the battle of Surigao Strait, Northern Luzon, and Formosa attacks. She served as a troop transport from 1945 to June 1946 during operation 4'Magic Carpet. She was decommissioned, then, after a glorious record of operations during the latter part of World War ll. ln May, 1951 she was brought from San Francisco, California to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where conversion began on July 15, 1951. She went on a around the worldi' cruise in late 1954 and early 1955. ln late 1955 the HORNET underwent modernization in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. It' was here she received the angled flight deck and hurricane bow. To prove the greatness of the name HORNET through the history of the United States Navy, the ship once again won the coveted Battle Efliciency ME , in 1959, the second in two years and for the first time as a support carrier. HORNET has also proved her excellence in Engineering by winning the Engineering HE for the fiscal year 1959-60 for another second consecutive year sequence. She has won four successive Battle Efficiency HE's,', beginning in 1958 to bear the grandeur of the name she bears. Beginning October 9, 1963, HORNET again deployed to the Western Pacific, returning in April 1964 after many visits to the cities of the Orient, and a short visit to beautiful Hawaii. 7

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PRE AC mo Loading provisions, preparing, surfacing and painting, hecarne habitual as this fighting lady began filling herself for the extended cruise to come.