The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt underway in the Gulf of Tonkin

Career
Laid down:	1 December 1943
Launched:	29 April 1945
Commissioned:	27 October 1945
Decommissioned:	30 September 1977
Stricken:	1 October 1977
Fate:	scrapped
General Characteristics (As Built)
Displacement:	45,000 tons
Length:	968 ft (295 m)
Beam:	113 ft (34 m)
Draft:	35 ft (10.7 m)
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement:	4,104 officers and men
Armament:	18 x 5-inch (127 mm)/54 guns (18x1) 40 x 3-inch (76 mm)/50 (20x2)
Aircraft:	137

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) was a Midway class aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1977. The ship was launched 29 April 1945 at New York Naval Shipyard as Coral Sea and was sponsored by Mrs. John H. Towers, wife of the Deputy Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet. On 8 May 1945, the ship was renamed Franklin D. Roosevelt in honor of the late president. To her crew, she was known as the "Swanky Franky" or the "Rosey;" the latter nickname was probably the more popular of the two. Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned 27 October 1945, Captain A. Soucek in command.

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