USS Bon Homme Richard

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was the 14th of the 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, the first one being named for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War frigate by the same name. Jones had named that ship, usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris, whose Poor Richard's Almanack had been published in France under the title Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard.

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CV-31; CV-31
mass 36200 ton, mass 27100 ton, mass 27100 tonne, length 265.8 metre, speed 32.7 knot, draft 8.6 metre, beam 28.3 metre, 
aircraft carrier, Essex-class (short bow), Essex-class aircraft carrier, Brooklyn Navy Yard, United States Navy, 

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1943-02-01T00:00:00Z

1943-02-01T00:00:00Z

keel laying

1951-01-15T00:00:00Z

1951-01-15T00:00:00Z

ship recommissioning

1955-09-06T00:00:00Z

1955-09-06T00:00:00Z

ship recommissioning

1944-11-26T00:00:00Z

1944-11-26T00:00:00Z

ship commissioning

1947-01-09T00:00:00Z

1947-01-09T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1953-05-15T00:00:00Z

1953-05-15T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1971-07-02T00:00:00Z

1971-07-02T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1944-04-29T00:00:00Z

1944-04-29T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

1939-09-01T00:00:00Z

World War II Q362

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Frameless

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway at sea c1965

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway in mid-1960s

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) after recommissioning in 1951

F3H-2 Demon of VF-193 lands on USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) c1959

Bow view of USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) at sea, circa in 1956

Mothballed aircraft carriers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1948 (NH 79051)

USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) docked at Naval Air Station Alameda on 27 October 1945 (NH 97340)

Mothballed aircraft carriers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1948 (80-G-428458)

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) at Hong Kong in February 1959

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) in Hong Kong in February 1959

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway at sea c1965		Commons
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway in mid-1960s		Commons
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) after recommissioning in 1951		Commons
commons	image		F3H-2 Demon of VF-193 lands on USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) c1959		Commons
commons	image		Bow view of USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) at sea, circa in 1956		Commons
commons	image		Mothballed aircraft carriers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1948 (NH 79051)		Commons
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) docked at Naval Air Station Alameda on 27 October 1945 (NH 97340)		Commons
commons	image		Mothballed aircraft carriers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1948 (80-G-428458)		Commons
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) at Hong Kong in February 1959		Commons
commons	image		USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) in Hong Kong in February 1959		Commons