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USS FRANKLIN (CV-13)

Shipname: USS FRANKLIN
Hull Number Designation: CV-13
Ship Type: Aircraft Carrier
Ship Class: Essex
Commissioned: 01/31/1944
Displacement: 30800
Decommissioned 17 February 1947, scrapped 1964

Sources of this information on the USS FRANKLIN comes from a variety of sources ranging from Jane's Fighting Ships to official US Naval (Department of the Navy) documents, navsource and US National Archives along with materials from sailors and donors to our collection. We wish to obtain material including but not limited to deck logs, cruise books, roster-muster rolls, photos, citations and technical operation and training materials. We are also looking for volunteers to help transribe roster muster rolls so that we can get this material into our searchable database.

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