uss sri lanka

Wow.

I had no idea the USA ever named its warships after other countries.

Wouldn't that be crazy if we had attacked Iraq with the USS Iraq???

Thats really confusing.

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The only Essex Class ship that even comes close to this name is CV-38 USS Shangri-La

Pehaps this is the vessel you are talking about.

There is no ship in the US inventory named "Sri Lanka". Carriers are/were named for battles, statesmen, other famous ships and in the case of "Shangri La" a ficticious island that Dolittle's Raiders were supposedly launched from. (Actually the USS Hornet)

The number/type of aircraft would depend on the time period in which you wish to model the ship.

If indeed you are talking about USS Shangri-La, it was commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1971.

There is a deployment history at http://navysite.de/cv/cv38deploy.htm listing the aircraft and squadrons embarked between 1947 and 1970.

USS Shangri-La, there is a story behind that name.

When the news of Doolittle's raid on Japan came out, there was a certain amout of reluctance among official Washington to provide details and identify that the bombers came from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. When asked about the raid, President Roosevelt said that the planes came from our base in Shangri-La

Author James Hilton's popular novel of 1939 'Lost Horizon' featured a mythical location in the Himalayas known as Shangri-La. Roosevelt's reference would have been readily understood by the people and press of the day.

To drag your thread back on topic ...

John Sheridan's article on SteelNavy describes each of the Essex-class carriers, their modifications and their airwings

http://www.steelnavy.com/essex_data.htm

say ed did you notice the picture at the front of the steel navy site looks like one of the hellcats is being pushed overboard
i just thought it was interesting

Ya, I see that, is interesting, how is the tail still horizontal? weight of the front?
looks weird. no denying it does look as if it is about to go over but....

No the aircraft was not being pushed overboard. It was being stored on an outrigger.

Due to deck space considerations some ready aircraft were stored with their tail wheels on outrigger tracks which projected out from the deck over the top of the catwalks. The main gear reamined on the deck and the aircraft was securely lashed to the deck.

If you look carefully you can see the track in the photo

All this reminds me of a paper I got from a student some years back. I have the students in my modern American military history course do "oral history" papers, based on taped interviews they've done with people who lived through various important events in military history. (It's a good assignment; I've learned at least as much from it as the students have.) Since the paper consists largely of a transcript from a tape, and since the students frequently have little or no background in military matters, the results are sometimes interesting.

This particular student had interviewed a Navy vet, who, according to the paper, had served on board the "U.S.S. Carl C." I stared at that one for a minute or two before I figured it out: the gentleman had said "U.S.S. Coral Sea."

Jack Jersey is guilty!
Do you remember his song?

Sri-Lanka
you are my Shangri-La
Hidden in the sun
Recalling the land of my roots
When my life began.

Michel

Oooops, sorry guys, your right aboutt the USS SHANGRI -LA<, terribly sorry for the mix up... Thank you very much for your time, not sri lanka. He he he he

Alvin

j tilley the navy vet was probably from the deep south they speak that way
and shoot an shazamm gomer i can't understood it no how

DURR - Maybe - but don't underestimate the modern American college student.

The following was NOT witnessed by me, but I have it on fairly good authority. A woman in her seventies was showing an old photo album to her two college-aged grandchildren. One of the pictures showed the lady in her WWII WAVES uniform.

Grandson: "Gee, Grandma! I never knew you were in the military!"

Grandmother: "Why, yes. I served in the WAVES."

Granddaughter: "Gee, that's really neat! But it's such a shame that you lost."

Grandmother: "What do you mean, I lost?"

Grandson: "Well....You're from the South, aren't you?"