USS Tarawa (CV-40)
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_underway_at_sea_on_18_December_1952.jpg) USS "Tarawa" w pobliżu Cieśniny Mesyńskiej w grudniu 1952 roku | ||
| Historia | ||
| Położenie stępki | 1 marca 1944 | |
| Wodowanie | 12 maja 1945 | |
 US Navy | ||
| Wejście do służby | 8 grudnia 1945 | |
| Wycofanie ze służby | 13 maja 1960 | |
| Los okrętu | sprzedany 3 października 1968 i złomowany w Baltimore | |
| Dane taktyczno-techniczne | ||
| Wyporność | standardowa: 27 100 t pełna: 39 300 t | |
| Napęd | ||
| napędzany dwiema śrubami o mocy łącznej 70 000 KM | ||
| Prędkość | 33 węzły | |
| Wyposażenie lotnicze | ||
| po zbudowaniu: 90-100 samolotów | ||
| Załoga | 3448 oficerów i marynarzy | |
USS Tarawa (CV-40) (także CVA-40, CVS-40) – lotniskowiec United States Navy typu Essex z przedłużonym kadłubem (podtyp Ticonderoga). Służył przede wszystkim na Pacyfiku. Wycofany ze służby w okresie 30 czerwca 1949 – 3 lutego 1951. Na przełomie 1954–1955 przebudowany na lotniskowiec ZOP.
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US Flag with 49 stars. In use 4 July 1959–3 July 1960. It was defined in Executive Order 10798.
The U.S. Navy anti-submarine aircraft carrier USS Tarawa (CVS-40) in the South Atlantic during "Operation Argus" in August/September 1958.
"Operation Argus" was a series of nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted during August and September of 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean by the United States's Defense Nuclear Agency, in conjunction with the Explorer 4 space mission. The naval task force was Task Force 88, its staff, which was in overall command, being aboard the USS Tarawa. The commanding officer of the Tarawa served as commader of Task Group 88.1. The USS Tarawa carried an U.S. Air Force MSQ-1A radar and communications vans for missile tracking and gathering scientific data, visible in front of the twin 12,7 cm gun turrets on the flight deck. The 19 Grumman S2F-2 Tracker aircraft of anti-submarine squadron VS-32 Norsemen flew search and security missions as well as scientific measurement, photographic, and observer missions during the missile and weapons tests.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Tarawa (CVA-40) underway at sea on 18 December 1952.
Note: the official description reads "... underway in the Mediterranea Sea, north of the Straits of Messina, Sicily, on 18 December 1952. She has F2H Banshee jet fighters on her catapults." However, this cannot be correct as Tarawa returned from the Mediterranean Sea to the U.S. on 11 June 1952 and left again on 7 January 1953. On neither deployment she carried F2H-2 Banshee fighters. Fighter Squadron 62 (VF-62) flew F2H-2 with the tail code "F" (as shown here). This was the tail code of Carrier Air Group 4 which was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea aboard USS Coral Sea (CVB-43), 19 April to 12 October 1952, and USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39), 26 April to 4 December 1953.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Tarawa (CV-40) underway, probably shortly after her commissioning in early 1946. Many planes of Carrier Air Group 4 (CVG-4) are visible on deck. Note that the hull number on deck and funnel is painted in black, and not in white as it was/is common lateron.