Hornet (CVS 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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The sixTh l-IORNET, ci converTed yochT, served os ci dis- pciTch vessel in The Spcinish Civil Wor. Her record oT operciTions oTT The coosT oT Cuboi upheld ond odded To The highesT Trc1diTions oT The service. During This wor, she corried ci boTTery of Three 6 pounders, Two T pounders ond Tour moichine guns. In Morch T910 she, Too, wcis sTricken Trom The Noivy RegisTer ond sold ouT oT service. HI TORY For ThirTy-one yeors The Novy wcis To be wiThouT ci ship corrying The TighTing noime oT HORNET, Then, on Moy 17, i939, Congress possed The Novol Exponsion ACT Thereby ouThorizing The sevenTh l-TORNET. Mrs. Froink M. Knox, wife ol: The SecreTory oT The Novy, chrisTened The USS HORNET lCV-8l, on December Tri, i94O, OT The NewporT News Shipbuilding ond Dry Dock Compony. The sevenTh HORNET wos The Tomous Shoingri Loi Trom which LieuTenonT Colonel Jimmy DooliTTle's Tomed Tokyo Roidersu were lounched. l-ler life oT one yecir ond Tive dgys proved To be ci glorious one. She porTic- ipoTed in The BoTTle oT Midwoy Trom June 3-6, TQ42, during which Time her Tomous Torpedo Sgucidron EighT golloinily losT every plone in ci doring oTTock on severol Joponese oircroTT corriers. They were meT by overwhelm- ing TighTer opposiTion oibouT eighT miles from Three enemy corriers ond were shoT down one by one. Only one piloT, Ensign George H. Goy, survived by hiding under his seoT cushion To ovoid sTroTing ond Thus wiT- nessed The grec1TesT corrier bciTTle in hisTory. l-IORNET lciTer supporTed The occupoTion oT Guodoil- conol ond wois presenT on OcTober 26, T942 when The BoTTle oT SonTo Cruz begon. ThoT morning plones from l-TORNET severely domciged The Jopoinese corrier SHO- KAKU ond The cruiser Cl-TIKUMA. Two oTher cruisers were cilso oiTTocked by I-TORNET oircroTT. Meonwhile, HORNET herselif wos TighTing oTT oi coordinoTed dive bombing Torpedo plone oTTcick which leTT her so severely domoged ThciT she hcid To be oboindoned. CommenTed one soilor owoiiTing rescue, who wos osked iT he plonned To reenlisT, DcimmiT, yes --- on The new l-lORNET. Cop- Tciin Nloson, The losT mon on bocird climbed over The side, ond survivors were soon picked up by desTroyers. The obcindoned l-TORNET, oblcize Trom sTem To sTern, refused To occepT her inTended Tc1Te Trom Triends. She sTill Tloc1Ted oTTer receiving nine Torpedoes ond more Thon 400 rounds oT 5-inch shellTire Trom US. desTroyers MUS- TIN ond ANDERSON. l-lORNET's dec1Th blow wos deoilT by Joponese desTroyers Tiring Tour 24-inch Torpedoes oT The ljlgziyqg l'1IJll4, AT OCTOLDGI' The HORNET lCV-8l Tinolly sonk oTT The SoinTc1 Cruz islonds.

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