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REPRISAL   (CV-35)



Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Bravo - Golf
Essex Class (*) Aircraft Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Stricken
7 Aug 1942 1 Jul 1944 14 May 1945      
Builder: New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
(*) "Long Hull" group, aka Ticonderoga Class

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Reprisal
NS098631101
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CV-35 was named Reprisal after a Continental Navy brigantine. "Reprisal" means "Hostile action taken in response to an offence; retaliation."

Two previous American warships had been named Reprisal:

  1. A Continental Navy brigantine.
  2. A light aircraft carrier, CVL-30, that was, however, renamed San Jacinto before launching.

NS098631101: Painting by William Nowland Van Powell of Lexington and Reprisal. Courtesy of the US Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. (Submitted by Tommy Trampp.)

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Reprisal (CV-35)
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023501
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There are very few known photos of what would have been CV-35, USS Reprisal. We are fortunate to have found this series of pictures and want to thank Gina Nichols (Naval HistoricalDMA) and specially Ron Reeves, who identified Reprisal in the first place and took the effort to send the photos to NavSource.

Aerial view of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, BuAer photo # 290081, received 2 December 1944. There are five aircraft carriers in sight (refer to NS023501a): (1) Reprisal (CV-35) under construction in Dry Dock #6; (2) Coral Sea, later Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) under construction in Dry Dock #5; (3) Kearsarge (CV-33) under construction; (4) Oriskany (CV-34) under construction; and (5) USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), commissioned 26 November 1944.

Naval Historical Center photograph.

Ron Reeves
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023501a
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023501b
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New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, photographed 2 December 1944. Carriers under construction in dry docks (right center) are [2] Coral Sea, later Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) and probably [1] Reprisal (CV-35).

Description: Copied from "Navy Yards and Stations" 3rd Naval District, volume III.

Photo: Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), # NH 93235.

[3] Kearsarge (CV-33) and [4] Oriskany (CV-34) are under construction, and [5] Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) had been commissioned on 26 November.

NHHC, via Ron Reeves
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023501c
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023502
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Aerial view of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, BuAer photo # 332720, received 15 April 1945. Refer to NS023502a: (1) Coral Sea, later Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) under construction in Dry Dock #5; (2) Reprisal (CV-35) under construction in Dry Dock #6.

Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) photographs.

NHHC, via Ron Reeves
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023502a
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1944
NS023502d
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023502b
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New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, seen from 2000 feet up, 15 April 1945. Ships in large dry docks at left are (left to right): [1] USS Houston (CL-81), [2] Coral Sea, later Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) and [3] probably Reprisal (CV-35).

Description: Copied from "Navy Yards and Stations" 3rd Naval District, volume III

Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) photo, # NH 93240.

NHHC, via Ron Reeves
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023502c
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023503
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Aerial view of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, BuAer photo # 332719, received 15 April 1945. Refer to NS023503a: (1) Coral Sea, later Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) under construction in Dry Dock #5; (2) Reprisal (CV-35) under construction in Dry Dock #6.

NS023503b: New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Photographed from 900 feet altitude, looking south, 15 April 1945. Copied from "Navy Yards and Stations" 3rd Naval District, volume III. Photo # NH 93236.

NS023503c: New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Photographed from 900 feet altitude, looking northeast, 15 April 1945. Copied from "Navy Yards and Stations" 3rd Naval District, volume III. Photo # NH 93238.

Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) photographs.

NHHC, via Ron Reeves
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023503a
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023503b
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1945
NS023503c
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Reprisal
NS023506
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The Essex-class Reprisal (CV-35) sits unfinished at New York Naval Shipyard in August 1945.

LIFE magazine, Sam Shere photographer, shared by Peter DeForest.

Mike Green
Reprisal
NS023504
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"Reprisal Suspended. What would have become the aircraft carrier USS Reprisal was the first construction project at BNY to be suspended with the end of hostilities in August 1945."

Ron Reeves
Reprisal
NS023505
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"Reprisal CV 35 Floated out today[, 14 May 1945,] From drydock Brooklyn Navy Yard."

Ron Reeves
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