USS Lake Champlain CVS-39

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Spacecraft Recovery
    5 May 1961: Freedom 7
    19 January 1965: Gemini II
    29 August 1965: Gemini 5

General Characteristics:
    Awarded: August 7, 1942
    Keel laid: March 15, 1943
    Launched: November 2, 1944
    Commissioned: June 3, 1945
    Decommissioned: May 2, 1969
    Builder: Norfolk Navy Yard
    Propulsion system: 8 boilers
    Propellers: four
    Aircraft elevators: three
    Arresting gear cables: four
    Catapults: two
    Length: 876 feet (267 meters)
    Flight Deck Width: 191.9 feet (58.5 meters)
    Beam: 101 feet (30.8 meters)
    Draft: 30.8 feet (9.4 meters)
    Displacement: approx. 40,600 tons full load
    Speed: 33 knots
    Planes: 80-100 planes
    Crew: approx. 3448
    Armament:  
       1943: 12 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns, 32 40mm guns and 44 20mm guns

More information on the USS Lake Champlain from the United States Navy.

Stricken from the Navy List 1 Dec 1969. Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping 28 Apr 1972.