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USS United States (CVA 58)
- canceled, never completed -
After several years of planning, on 29 July 1948 President Truman approved construction of a "supercarrier", for which funds had been provided in the Naval Appropriations Act 1949. This first postwar carrier was laid down in April 1949. The flush-deck 65,000-ton CVA 58 UNITED STATES was designed to launch and recover the large aircraft of 100,000 pounds required to carry early nuclear weapons, which weighed as much as five tons. The ship was to be over 1000 feet long, without an island, equipped with four aircraft elevators and four catapults and of a radical new design. The construction cost of the new ship was estimated at $190 million, with the additional thirty-nine ships required to complete the accompanying task force estimated to cost $1.265 billion. The UNITED STATES was also intended to provide tactical air support for air and amphibious forces and to conduct sea control operations. But the general perception was that the UNITED STATES was primarily intended as a platform for long-range nuclear bombardment.
- canceled, never completed -
After several years of planning, on 29 July 1948 President Truman approved construction of a "supercarrier", for which funds had been provided in the Naval Appropriations Act 1949. This first postwar carrier was laid down in April 1949. The flush-deck 65,000-ton CVA 58 UNITED STATES was designed to launch and recover the large aircraft of 100,000 pounds required to carry early nuclear weapons, which weighed as much as five tons. The ship was to be over 1000 feet long, without an island, equipped with four aircraft elevators and four catapults and of a radical new design. The construction cost of the new ship was estimated at $190 million, with the additional thirty-nine ships required to complete the accompanying task force estimated to cost $1.265 billion. The UNITED STATES was also intended to provide tactical air support for air and amphibious forces and to conduct sea control operations. But the general perception was that the UNITED STATES was primarily intended as a platform for long-range nuclear bombardment.
