USS Midway (CV-41) by junge1
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The USS Midway is a Midway-Class aircraft carrier. She was launched on 20 March 1945 and commissioned on 10 September 1945. Her displacement at commissioning was 45,000 tons and at her decommissioning it was 74,000 tons.
Length: 972-ft. (296m)
Beam: 113-ft. (34.4m)
Draft: 34.5-ft. (10.5m)
Speed: 33 knots (60km/h
Complement: Approx. 75 aircraft and over 4,000 officers and men.
She participated in the Viet Nam and first Gulf War.
She was decommissioned at the Naval Air Station North Island on 11 April 1992 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 17 March 1997.
Since 10 January 2004 the ship was moored at her final location at the Broadway Pier in Downtown San Diego, California where she was opened to the public on 7 June 2004 as a museum.
This picture was taken on 26 August 2007.
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Comments (33)
e-brink
Fantastic shot! really get across just how big these things are!
Buffalo1
She's a fine ship and looks like she could take to the seas again if we needed her.
casmindo
I have been aboard the Midway wow what a trip! Nice shot!