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USS PRINCETON   (CV-37)
(later CVA-37, CVS-37 and LPH-5)



Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Hotel - Romeo - November
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "BULLHORN"

CLASS - ESSEX (Long Hull) AKA TICONDEROGA
Displacement 27,100 Tons, Dimensions, 888' (oa) x 93' x 28' 7" (Max)
Armament 12 x 5"/38AA, 32 x 40mm, 46 x 20mm, 82 Aircraft.
Armor, 4" Belt, 2 1/2" Hanger deck, 1 1/2" Deck, 1 1/2" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 150,000 SHP; Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 3448.

Operational and Building Data

Initially named Valley Forge.

FATE

About 600 tons of her armor plate have been put to use at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.


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CV-37 Princeton
NS023701
26k Undated. USN
CV-37 Princeton
NS023702
103k Undated. USN
CV-37 Princeton
NS023713
54k

USS Princeton (CV-37) operating off the coast of Japan in the late 1940s.

Naval Historical Center photo (# NH 95400).

NHC
CV-37 Princeton
NS023720
135k

This photo is believed to have been taken at Pearl Harbor sometime in 1946–1948.

Robert M. Cieri
CV-37 Princeton
NS023722
204k

A photo of USS Princeton (CV-37) taken on April 11, 1946 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. USN photo. Note she still has the wartime dark flight deck numbers.

David Buell
CV-37 Princeton
NS023719
169k

"Ominous clouds form a symbolic background as the mighty carrier Princeton is readied for action at Bremerton."

"Typical of U.S. Navy ships awakening from hibernation in the reserve fleets is the aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CV 37), emerging from cocoons at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremeton, Wash. Upon complete reactivation, Princeton will be assigned to U.S. Pacific Fleet."

(From "All Hands" magazine, November 1950.)

Stanley Svec
CV-37 Princeton
NS023716
222k

USS Princeton (CV-37) underway with Carrier Air Group 19 (CVG-19) aboard. Princeton and CVG-19 deployed twice to WestPac & Korea: November 9, 1950 – May 29, 1951 and March 21 – November 3, 1952. Parked forward on the flight deck are F4U Corsairs of VF-192 and AD-4 Skyraiders of VC-35.

Robert M. Cieri
CV-37 Princeton
NS023705
155k

Sasebo, Japan — U.S. Navy ships take on supplies while moored in Sasebo harbor, circa December 1950. Photographed from USS Princeton (CV-37), which arrived in the area on her first Korean War deployment in early December. Among the ships in the background are USS Mount Katmai (AE-16), in left center, and USS Comstock (LSD-19), at right. Planes on Princeton's deck are AD-4 Skyraiders assigned to VA-195 "Dambusters."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-423620).

Scott Dyben
CV-37 Princeton
NS023706
116k

USS Princeton (CV-37) takes on supplies and ammunition at Sasebo, Japan, on 4 December 1950, the day before she began combat operations off Korea. Note LSU-1082 and large floating crane alongside the carrier.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (photo # 80-G-K-11754).

Scott Dyben
CV-37 Princeton
NS023707
76k

Two Grumman F9F-2 Panther fighters dump fuel as they fly past the carrier, during Korean War operations circa May 1951. Photographed from a VC-61 plane piloted by Lieutenant (Junior Grade) George Elmies. This photograph was released by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 23 May 1951. The plane on left is Bureau # 123583.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97047).

NHC
CV-37 Princeton
NS023708
124k

Scoreboard on the carrier's bridge wing, showing the work done by aircraft of Air Group 19 while embarked on Princeton from 5 December 1950 to 29 May 1951. The photograph was released by Commander Naval Forces Far East under date of 7 June 1951.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97075).

NHC
CV-37 Princeton
NS023709
81k

USS Princeton (CV-37) at sea off the coast of Korea with F4U aircraft parked aft and F9F jet fighters forward. The original photograph is dated 8 June 1951.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97312).

NHC
CV-37 Princeton
NS023703
138k

Date and location unknown (see NS023721 below, however.)

USN
CV-37 Princeton
NS023721
201k

Official US Navy Photograph #CNFE-1819 from the Photographic Laboratory of Commander, Naval Forces Far East. The photo shows USS Princeton (CV-37), during underway replenishment with USS Ashtabula (AO-51), along with USS John R. Craig (DD-885) breaking away, on 30 September 1952, between air strikes on the Hungnam area on the east coast of North Korea. Princeton was nearing the end of her third Korean War cruise (21 March–3 November 1952).

(Note that this photo appears to have been taken shortly after NS023703, above).

Robert M. Cieri
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023710
146k

USS Princeton (CVS-37) photographed circa the mid-1950s, with twelve S2F anti-submarine aircraft parked forward.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97313).

NHC
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023715
94k

Off Point Loma, as an ASW carrier, possibly in the late 1950s.

Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023717
141k

Two views of USS Princeton (CVS-37) as an ASW carrier, in the late 1950s.

David Buell
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023718
121k
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023711
126k

Commander Carrier Division 15, Captain Raymond N. Sharp, shows the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike, emergency supplies that are to be delivered to flood victims in his nation, 11 January 1958. Photographed on the carrier's hangar deck, with HSS-1 helicopters undergoing maintenance in the background. Relief supplies include cans of sliced & cored pineapple, produced in Australia and donated by the United States.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center (# NH 97314).

NHC
Patches
CV-37 Princeton
NS023714
Contributed by Mike Smolinski
64Kb
CVS-37 Princeton
NS023712
Contributed by Mike Smolinski
66Kb

For more photos and information about this ship, see:

USS PRINCETON CV-37 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact and Reunion Information
Date:  
Place:  
Contact: Joe Boyle
President, USS Princeton Veterans, Inc.
Address:  
Phone:  
E-mail: jboyle@crossroadssolutions.org
Web site: USS Princeton Veterans, Inc.
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Related Links
Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Official U.S. Navy Carrier Website
USS Princeton Veterans Inc.
Korean Combat Action Reports located on the Naval Historical Center Web Site

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