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REPRISAL (CV-35)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Bravo - Golf

Ordered	Laid down	Launched
**Essex Class () Aircraft Carrier***
7 Aug 1942	1 Jul 1944	- - 1945
Builder: New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y. () "Long Hull" group, aka Ticonderoga* Class

Name: "Reprisal" means "hostile action taken in response to an offence; retaliation."
The first American warship to bear this name was a Revolutionary War brig (ex-merchantman Molly), purchased in March 1776 and lost off the banks of Newfoundland in September 1777. Under the command of Captain Lambert Wickes she was the first vessel of the Continental Navy to arrive in European waters.
(The Cleveland-class light cruiser Newark (CL–100) was reclassified CV–30 on June 2, 1942 and renamed Reprisal three weeks later, June 23. While under conversion to an aircraft carrier, she was renamed San Jacinto, January 6, 1943.)
Fate: Construction of Reprisal was canceled on August 12, 1945 when 52.3 percent complete. Launched in 1945 without ceremony to clear the slipway, her hull was utilized in experimental work in the Chesapeake Bay from 1946–48. Although inspected during January 1949 with a view to completing her as an attack carrier, the plan was dropped and her hulk was sold on August 2, 1949 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md. She was scrapped during November 1949. (Source: DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, located on the Naval Historical Center website.)

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