USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to …

Feb 21, 2025 · Article Summary and Key Points: The USS Wasp (CV-7) was an aircraft carrier built under the constraints of the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited its size, armor, and …

USS Wasp was the 7th USN aircraft carrier, built to use remaining treaty tonnage. She operated in the Atlantic and was sunk at Guadalcanal.

USS WASP was the tenth ESSEX - class aircraft carrier. Initially named ORISKANY, the carrier was renamed WASP on March 18, 1942, to honor CV 7, making CV 18 the ninth ship in the …

Sep 1, 2024 · Summary and Key Points: The USS Wasp (CV-7) was a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier designed under the constraints of the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited its size and …

Oct 6, 2025 · A "Wasp" is "any of numerous winged hymenopterous insects possessing smooth, slender bodies, and an abdomen attached by a narrow stalk. They have well-developed wings, …

Mar 18, 2021 · Following a shakedown cruise which lasted through the end of 1943, Wasp returned to Boston for a brief yard period to correct minor flaws which had been discovered …

Jun 20, 2024 · Construction on the eighth Wasp (CV-7) began on 1 April 1936 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts). She was launched on 4 April 1939, and was …

One of the American aircraft carriers sent to the region to replace U.S. Navy losses at Midway was the USS Wasp (CV-7)—a big, hulking, behemoth of a floating island 688 feet long, with a …

The Wasp design had some original features. Asymmetric hull became unique line of the ship: so designers indemnified weight of island superstructure without ballast stowage on a port.