Asbestos Exposure on Ships:

USS PRINCETON CVL 23 AIRCRAFT

USS Princeton was the United States Navy independence-class aircraft carrier. Was laid down as the Cleveland class light cruiser Tallahassee (CL-61) on 2nd of June 1941 but was reclassified as the independence class light carrier CV-23 in February 1942 and renamed Princeton in March, the same year. It was launched on 18th October 1942 and sponsored by Margaret Dodds. Was again reclassified to CVL-23 on 15th July 1943, and with Air Group 23 on the board headed Baker Island where she served as a flagship and provided air cover during the occupation of the island and the construction of an airfield there. During that period ships’ planes downed Japanese Emily reconnaissance plane and provided the fleet with photographs of them. In her way to New Guinea she provided air cover for the Hollandia operation and then crossed back over the International Date Line to raid Truk and Ponape. At Majuro she rejoined the fast carriers and oriented Marianas in order to support the assault on Saipan. She sent her planes against targets on Guam, Rota, Tinian, Pagan, Saipanand then tried to intercept a Japanese fleet that was en route to Marianas. In the Battle of the Philippine Sea 30 people were killed by her guns. In route back its planes raided Palus and struck airfoils in Mindanao then returned to the Philippines to hit Luzon. The ship sunk on 20th October. Princeton’s main characteristics were:

  • Independence-class aircraft carrier
  • 13.000 tons
  • 187.7 meters length, 21.8 beam(waterline), 33.3 meters (extreme), 7.9 meters draft
  • 31 knots speed
  • 22 x Bofors 40 mm guns, 16 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
  • 45 carried aircrafts

Asbestos on board the USS Princeton has serious consequences

If you have already read a couple of our texts on aircraft carriers, you can see that USS Princeton is also one of those ships that contained fairly large amounts of asbestos. Mainly, it is not the builders’ or the designers’ fault that the ship contained asbestos, because asbestos has only been classified as a toxic element around the 1960’s.

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