USS Hancock

USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Hancock was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the namesake of Founding Father John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress and first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hancock was commissioned in April 1944 and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning four battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA). In her second career, she operated exclusively in the Pacific, playing a prominent role in the Vietnam War, for which she earned a Navy Unit Commendation. She was the first US Navy carrier to have steam catapults installed. She was decommissioned in early 1976 and sold for scrap later that year.

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CV-19; CV-19; CV19; CVA-19; CVA19; Hancock
mass 27100 tonne, speed 32.7 knot, length 271 metre, draft 8.71 metre, speed 33 knot, beam 28 metre, 
aircraft carrier, Ticonderoga-class aircraft carrier, Essex-class aircraft carrier, United States Navy, Fore River Shipyard, 

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1954-02-15T00:00:00Z

1954-02-15T00:00:00Z

ship recommissioning

1956-11-15T00:00:00Z

1956-11-15T00:00:00Z

ship recommissioning

1943-01-26T00:00:00Z

1943-01-26T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1947-05-09T00:00:00Z

1947-05-09T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1956-04-13T00:00:00Z

1956-04-13T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1976-01-30T00:00:00Z

1976-01-30T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1944-04-15T00:00:00Z

1944-04-15T00:00:00Z

ship commissioning

1944-01-24T00:00:00Z

1944-01-24T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

World War II Q362

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Frameless

USS Hancock (CV-19) underway at sea, circa in 1944

USS Hancock underway replenishment from USS Sacramento

US carriers at Yokosuka Naval Base c1955

USS Hancock (CV-19) with CH-53s of HMH-463 stands by off the coast of Cambodia

USS Hancock Kearsarge Princeton at San Diego 1955

Vietnamese refugees disembark from USS Hancock at Subic Bay

USS English (DD-696), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) underway in the Pacific Ocean, circa in January 1945 (80-G-470281)

Vietnamese evacuees disembark USS Hancock at Subic Bay

CVA 19 Hancock - DPLA - bac53f1d6ed82aef7ea1a0e1c6648537

AD-6 VA-125 in flight over USS Hancock (CVA-19) c1955

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		USS Hancock (CV-19) underway at sea, circa in 1944		Commons
commons	image		USS Hancock underway replenishment from USS Sacramento		Commons
commons	image		US carriers at Yokosuka Naval Base c1955		Commons
commons	image		USS Hancock (CV-19) with CH-53s of HMH-463 stands by off the coast of Cambodia		Commons
commons	image		USS Hancock Kearsarge Princeton at San Diego 1955		Commons
commons	image		Vietnamese refugees disembark from USS Hancock at Subic Bay		Commons
commons	image		USS English (DD-696), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) underway in the Pacific Ocean, circa in January 1945 (80-G-470281)		Commons
commons	image		Vietnamese evacuees disembark USS Hancock at Subic Bay		Commons
commons	image		CVA 19 Hancock - DPLA - bac53f1d6ed82aef7ea1a0e1c6648537		Commons
commons	image		AD-6 VA-125 in flight over USS Hancock (CVA-19) c1955		Commons