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![]() USS Bennington as an ASW-carrier on 5 March 1965
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Name | Bennington |
Namesake | Battle of Bennington |
Ordered | 15 December 1941 |
Builder | New York Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 15 December 1942 |
Launched | 28 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 6 August 1944 |
Decommissioned | 8 November 1946 |
Recommissioned | 13 November 1952 |
Decommissioned | 15 January 1970 |
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Stricken | 20 September 1989 |
Fate | Scrapped, 12 January 1994 |
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Beam | 93 ft (28.3 m) |
Draft | 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 2,600 officers and enlisted men |
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USS Bennington (CV/CVA/CVS-20) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1952 to 1970. She was sold for scrap in 1994.
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