![]() Artist's rendering of the proposed USS United States handling McDonnell FH-1 Phantom fighters and Lockheed P2V-3C Neptune twin-engine bombers
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Class overview | |
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Name | United States class |
Builders | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Preceded by | Midway class |
Succeeded by | Forrestal class |
Planned | 5 |
Completed | 0 |
History | |
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Name | United States |
Namesake | United States |
Ordered | 29 July 1948[1] |
Builder | Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding[2] |
Laid down | 18 April 1949[2] |
Fate | Cancelled 23 April 1949[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Aircraft carrier |
Displacement | |
Length | 1,090 feet (332 m) overall,[4] 1,030 feet (314 m) waterline,[5] 1,088 feet (332 m) flight deck[1] |
Beam | 125 feet (38 m) waterline (molded), 190 feet (58 m) flight deck[4] |
Draft | 37 feet (11 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement | |
Armament | 8 × 5 in (127 mm) / 54 caliber guns in single mounts, 16 × 76 mm / 70 caliber guns in eight twin mounts, 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons in ten twin mounts[1] |
Aircraft carried | 12 to 18 heavy bombers[1] and 54 jet engined fighter aircraft[1] |
USS United States (CVA-58) was to be the lead ship of a new design of aircraft carrier. On 29 July 1948, President Harry Truman approved construction of five "supercarriers", for which funds had been provided in the Naval Appropriations Act of 1949. The keel of the first of the five planned postwar carriers was laid down on 18 April 1949 at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.[2] The program was canceled in 1949, United States was not completed, and the other four planned carriers were never built.
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