Ship name: USS Wasp Ship type: aircraft carrier Ship class: Wasp Hull number: CV-7 Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts Launched: 4 April 1939 Commissioned: 25 April 1940 Complement: 1800 - 2167 (war) Displacement: 19423 tonnes (full) Aircraft carried: 75 - 100 Main Armament: 8 x 127 mm (5") Armour: 89 mm (3.5") in side Lenght: 225,93 m Beam: 33,00 m Draught: 6,10 m Range: 12000 nmi (22000 km) at 15 knots Speed: 29,5 knots Machinery output: 70000 shp (52000 kW) Fate: sunk by IJN submarine I-19, 15 September 1942