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USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid.
Hornet had a two-day head start on Flying Cloud in their famous 1853 race. She left New York City for San Francisco , California on April 26, 1853, with Flying Cloud departing two days later. After the roughly 15,000- nautical mile (27,780-km) voyage around Cape Horn , both ships arrived in San Francisco harbor 106 days later at almost the same ...
USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II.Completed in late 1943, the ship was assigned to the Fast Carrier Task Force (variously designated as Task Force 38 or 58) in the Pacific Ocean, the navy's primary offensive force during the Pacific War.
USS Hornet (1865), the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. USS Hornet (1898), a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish–American War. USS Hornet (CV-8) launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum is a museum ship, located on the southernmost pier of the former Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California, US. The museum is composed of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet , exhibits from the NASA Apollo Moon exploration missions, and several retired aircraft from the Second World War and the ...
The office of the Chief of Naval Operations later identified a Boeing-made F/A-18 with a nine-missile configuration as a "Murder Hornet," a play on the fighter jet's actual name, the Super Hornet.
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C.
The carrier USS Hornet can be seen behind her. America was moored at Norfolk, Virginia, and acquired by the Navy on 1 June 1941 to be used as a troop transport. [4] The ship was renamed the USS West Point (AP-23), [4] the second U.S. Navy ship of the name.