Photo taken Sydney Harbour mid 1980'. Scanned from a 35mm slide

USS Midway
Ordered: 1 August 1942
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Laid down: 27 October 1943
Launched: 20 March 1945
Commissioned: 10 September 1945
Decommissioned: 11 April 1992
In service: 1945
Out of service: 1992
Struck: 17 March 1997
Nickname(s): Midway Magic
Status: Museum ship at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California
General characteristics
Class and type: Midway-class aircraft carrier
Displacement:
45,000 tons at commissioning
64,000 tons at decommissioning
Length: 972 ft (296 m)
Beam:
121 ft (37 m)
136 ft (41 m), 238 ft (73 m) at flight deck after modernization
Draft: 34.5 ft (10.5 m)
Propulsion: 12 boilers, four Westinghouse geared turbines
Speed: 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement: 4,104 officers and men
Armament:
At commissioning:
18 × 5"/54 caliber Mark 16 guns,
84 × Bofors 40 mm guns,
68 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
At decommissioning:
2 8-cell Sea Sparrow launchers,
2 Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried: 137 theoretical, 100 (1940s-50s), 65 (Vietnam-retirement)