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Hancock

Class	Essex class
Type	Aircraft carrier (CV)
Hull	CV-19
Fate	Afloat. A kamikaze hit her on 7 April 1945. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)	Fleet carrier. Flight deck, with the island set aft of amidships.
Command	Hickey, Robert Ferdinand Captain from 30 November 1944; Relieved on 7 September 1945

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

USS Hancock (CV-19) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was a fleet carrier, a ship of the CV type whose work was to take aircraft to sea.

Robert Ferdinand Hickey took command on 30 November 1944. He remained her captain through the months that followed.

In 1945 Hancock was with the fast carriers for the Okinawa landings. That operation is dated 1 April 1945. On 7 April 1945 a kamikaze hit her during the Okinawa operation. The carrier stayed afloat.

Hancock survived the war. Captain Hickey was relieved on 7 September 1945, and the hull that had taken the April hit was still afloat at the end of his command.

The pictures on this page are the originals.