Where is the USS Hornet CV 8 now?

CV-8 is honored aboard her namesake, which is now the USS Hornet Museum docked in Alameda, California.

Have they found the USS Hornet?

“Wreckage of the USS Hornet was discovered in late January 2019, 5,330 meters (nearly 17,500 feet) below the surface, resting on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean,” the R/V Petrel team and parent company Vulcan announced online.

How many crew members were on board when the USS Hornet sunk?

The Hornet finally went down when two Japanese destroyers fired torpedoes the next night. Most of the crew of 2,170 men had abandoned the ship by the time it sank, but 140 were killed, according to historians. The Vulcan project has located about 20 historically significant vessels to date.

How many USS Hornet’s have there been?

Eight ships
Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect: USS Hornet (1775), a 10-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, served in the American Revolutionary War.

Is the USS Hornet still afloat?

USS Hornet (CV-8) was the third and final member of the Yorktown class, commissioned just weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a pre-World War II vessel, her size was limited in accordance with naval treaties of the 1930’s. CV-8 was sunk during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in late October 1942.

What happened to the USS Hornet after the Doolittle Raid?

USS Hornet (CV-8) dead in the water and abandoned in the aftermath of second Japanese attack of the day during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.

Where is the wreckage of the USS Hornet?

the South Pacific Ocean
Wreckage of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet rests on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean around the Solomon Islands, 5,400 meters (nearly 17,500 feet) below the surface as discovered last month by the expedition crew of Paul G. Allen’s Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel.

Why is the USS Hornet famous?

USS Hornet (CV-12) was commissioned in November 1943. She entered the Pacific War in March 1944 and was part of the famous US Navy Fast Carrier Task Forces that pounded enemy installations in the western Pacific supported numerous island invasions. She was awarded 11 battle stars for her exemplary WWII service.

Has a battleship ever sunk a carrier?

This is what happenned. At 4 p.m. on June 8, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was cruising west across the Norwegian Sea towards the British naval base of Scapa Flow when her lookout spotted two grey blips over a dozen miles away on the horizon.

Was the USS Hornet at Midway?

Hornet was a World War II-era aircraft carrier commissioned in 1941 that played a decisive role in the pivotal Battle of Midway. In April 1942, the Doolittle Raid was launched from the deck of the Hornet.

Was the USS Hornet in Vietnam?

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Hornet, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 (CVSG-57), was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 27 March to 28 October 1967.