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USS Iwo Jima (CV-46)

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Career
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate:sold for scrap
General Characteristics
Displacement:27,100 tons
Length:872 ft (266 m)
Extreme Width:147.5 ft (45 m)
Draft:28.6 ft (8.7 m)
Speed:32.7 knots
Complement:3,448 officers and men
Armament:12 x 5-inch (127 mm) guns
Aircraft:

Iwo Jima (CV-46), a Ticonderoga-class aircraft carrier, was under construction by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., but was canceled 12 August 1945. Her partially completed hull was scrapped.

Text from Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships