US Navy's Midway-class aircraft carrier “Coral Sea” (CVA-43) at Hong Kong, May 1972
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia
Displacements: 52,500 standard, 64,000 full load
Length overall: 298.4 m
Draft: 10.8 m
Engines: 4 x Westinghouse geared turbines
Speed: 33 knots
Complement: 2,710
Aircraft: approx. 75
Laid down 10th July 1944
Commissioned 1st October 1947. Originally designated CVB (Large Aircraft Carrier)
Redesignated CVA (Attack Aircraft Carrier) 1953
Underwent modernisation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington State, 1956-1960
Decommissioned 26 April 1990
Gradually canibalized then scrapped (completed September 2000)