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Currituck

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
AV7	Currituck		Philadelphia N Yd	14.12.1942	11.9.1943	26.6.1944	stricken 4.1971
AV11	Norton Sound	61	Todd, San Pedro	7.9.1942	28.11.1943	8.1.1945	guided missile test ship AVM1 8.1951, stricken 1.1987
AV12	Pine Island	62	Todd, San Pedro	16.11.1942	26.2.1944	26.4.1945	stricken 2.1971
AV13	Salisbury Sound (ex-Puget Sound)	63	Todd, San Pedro	10.4.1943	18.6.1944	26.11.1945	stricken 1971

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	12100
Displacement full, t	15092
Length, m	158.5 wl 164.7 oa
Breadth, m	21.1
Draught, m	6.78 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	12000
Max speed, kts	19.2
Fuel, t	oil 2324
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	AV7: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 30 seaplanes (SOC, OS2U) AV11 - 13: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 30 seaplanes (OS2U, SC)
Electronic equipment	presumably SG, SK, Mk 26 radars
Complement	1247

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Aircraft facilities

Aircraft fuel stowage was 1 052 200 l. There were 3 heavy cranes for handling seaplanes and transverse catapult H-5. Marine Corps dive bombers can be launched from catapult with landing on coastal airfields.

Project history

Development of Curtiss class. The basic difference was included in the increased sizes of aviation deck on stern. Hangar has been moved fwd, that, in turn, has demanded to re-plan funnels, trunking them into the one. It became the most appreciable visual difference from two-funneled Curtiss class. The following changes brought in the design were transverse catapult on an aviation deck and increased aviation fuel stowage. Being designing in 1941 it was supposed to protect ships by 51mm armour deck (the hull beam was to be increased on 0.7m), but these plans have not been realised. AA armament, in comparison with predecessors, was appreciable strengthened: 2x4 28mm MG mounts and 4 12.7mm MGs were provided. Already before completion unsuccessful 28mm MGs were replaced by 40mm Boforses.

Ship protection

There was 4-compartment underwater protection.

Modernizations

None.

1/1946, all: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 30 seaplanes, presumably SG, SK, Mk 26 radars

1960s, all survived: + WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites

Naval service

Norton Sound in role of test ship was used in many missiles tests and ended service as Aegis test ship (from 1974).