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Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1967
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| Name: | USS Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Namesake: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Builder: | New York Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 1 December 1943 |
| Launched: | 29 April 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 27 October 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1977 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1977 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped |
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| Class and type: | Midway-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 45,000 tons |
| Length: | 968 ft (295 m) |
| Beam: | 113 ft (34 m) |
| Draft: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Speed: | 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 4,104 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 137 |
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) was the second of three Midway-class aircraft carriers. To her crew, she was known as "Swanky Franky," "Foo-De-Roo," or "Rosie," with the last nickname probably the most popular. Roosevelt spent most of her active deployed career operating in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the United States Sixth Fleet. The ship was decommissioned in 1977 and was scrapped shortly afterward. She was the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy to be named in honor of a President of the United States.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was laid down at New York Naval Shipyard on 1 December 1943. Sponsor Mrs. John H. Towers, wife of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, christened the ship Coral Sea at the 29 April 1945 launching. On 8 May 1945, President Harry S. Truman approved the Secretary of the Navy's recommendation to rename the ship Franklin D. Roosevelt in honor of the late president, who had died four weeks earlier.
Roosevelt was commissioned on Navy Day, 27 October 1945, at the New York Naval Shipyard. Capt. Apollo Soucek was the ship's first commanding officer. During her shakedown cruise, Roosevelt called at Rio de Janeiro from 1 to 11 February 1946 to represent the United States at the inauguration of Brazilian president Eurico Gaspar Dutra, who came aboard for a short cruise. During April and May, Roosevelt participated in Eighth Fleet maneuvers off the East Coast, the Navy's first major postwar training exercise.
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