    
Title: USS Wasp, April, 1939 Description: USS Wasp (CV-7) goes down the ways on her launching at the Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts; the Wasp was smaller and slower than its sister ships, USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Ranger (CV-4), USS Yorktown (CV-5), and the USS Enterprise (CV-6) because of the tonnage restrictions imposed upon the U.S. Navy at the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty limiting a total tonnage of 135,000 tons for U.S. aircraft carriers; the Wasp was designed to replace the small experimental first U.S. carrier USS Langley (CV-1); Date: April 4, 1939 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, airplanes, aviation, carriers, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1200 x 995 (1.19 MPixels) (1.21) Print Size: 10.2 x 8.4 cm; 4.0 x 3.3 inches File Size: 3.42 MB (3,586,210 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010645 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
