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San Jacinto

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ClassIndependence class
TypeLight carrier (CVL)
HullCVL-30
FateAfloat. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)Light carrier converted from a cruiser hull. Flight deck and an island.
Command

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.

San Jacinto
The U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) underway off the U.S. East Coast (position 36 55'N, 75 07'W) on 23 January 1944, with a North American SNJ Texan training plane parked on her flight deck. Note the destroyer steaming astern of the carrier. Public domain.

USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) was a light aircraft carrier of the Independence class in the United States Navy.

Captain Michael Holt Kernodle commanded her from 14 October 1944 until he was relieved on 24 August 1945.

On 1 April 1945, while Kernodle was still her captain, San Jacinto was with the fast carriers off Okinawa. She remained with those carriers through that day and was not sunk. She survived the war. The hull was not lost.

The pictures on this page are the originals.