CV - 47 USS Philippine Sea

USS PHILIPPINE SEA was the last ESSEX - class aircraft carrier and the first ship in the Navy to bear the name. Redesignated as attack aircraft carrier CVA 47 on October 1, 1952, and antisubmarine warfare aircraft carrier CVS 47 on November 15, 1955, the PHILIPPINE SEA was decommissioned on December 28, 1958, and berthed with the Reserve Fleet at Long Beach, Calif. She was redesignated as AVT 11 on May 15, 1959. PHILIPPINE SEA was struck from the Navy List on December 1, 1969, and sold for scrapping in March 1971.
General Characteristics: Awarded: 1943
Keel laid: August 19, 1944
Launched: September 5, 1945
Commissioned: May 11, 1946
Decommissioned: December 28, 1958
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.
Propulsion system: 8 boilers
Propellers: four
Aircraft elevators: three
Arresting gear cables: four
Catapults: two
Length: 888.5 feet (270.8 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 129.9 feet (39.6 meters)
Beam: 93.2 feet (28.4 meters)
Draft: 30.8 feet (9.4 meters)
Displacement: approx. 38,500 tons full load
Speed: 33 knots
Planes: 80-100 planes
Crew: approx. 3448 as CVS: 1000

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