Wasp Class Aircraft Carriers Class Overview

Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Quincy, Massachusetts

Apr. 4, 1939
Apr. 25, 1940
Fate
Sunk Sept. 15, 1942. Damaged by 3 torpedoes from I-19 and scuttled by
USS Lansdowne DD-486.

Location: South Pacific, 268 miles southeast of Guadalcanal Island,
Solomon Islands.
(12.25S - 164.08E)

193 crewmen killed, 1,946 survivors removed by USS Helena CL-50,
USS Salt Lake City CA-35,USS Laffey DD-459, USS Lansdowne DD-486.


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