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USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy.The ship, the ninth US Navy ship to bear the name, was originally named Oriskany, but was renamed while under construction in honor of the previous Wasp (CV-7), which was sunk 15 September 1942.
USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) is a United States Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, and the lead ship of her class. She is the tenth USN vessel to bear the name since 1775, with the last two ships named Wasp being aircraft carriers .
McCampbell while serving as a landing signal officer on board USS Wasp during Operation Bowery. He is signalling to a pilot about to take off, May 1942 [3] McCampbell served as a landing signal officer (LSO) from May 1940, surviving the sinking of the carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) by a Japanese submarine near Guadalcanal on September 15, 1942. [4]
1800: USS Pickering, on course from Guadeloupe to Delaware, lost with 91 people on board. [15] (Possibly lost in a gale) 1814: USS Wasp, last known position was the Caribbean, lost with 140 people on board. [15] (Possibly lost in a storm) 1824: USS Wild Cat, on course from Cuba to Tompkins Island, lost with 14 people on board. [15] (Lost in a ...
The service members later returned to their ship, the USS Wasp, it said. The Marines' unit is on routine deployment with the U.S. Navy’s Wasp Amphibious Readiness Group, Navy Cmdr. Timothy ...
USS Hobson – On the night of 26 April, Hobson was steaming in formation with carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) about 600 miles (1000 kilometers) west of the Azores. The Hobson crossed the carrier's bow and was promptly struck amidships. The force of the collision rolled the destroyer-minesweeper over, breaking it in two.
During one such operation on the night of 26 April 1952 at 2220, Hobson was steaming in formation with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) and destroyers USS Rodman (DD-456) and USS Ross (DD-563) about 900 kilometres (490 nmi) southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland at during night flight operations en route to Gibraltar