San Diego County, California Genealogy Trails
Candi Horton ©2007

I took a tour of this breath taking carrier in 2006. -Candi
If one of your ancestors served on this carrier please consider sharing their information. So it can be placed Here.

USS Midway
Located in San Diego at the Historic Ships of the Maritime Museum.

 

 

The ship has 212,000 horsepower and is a total weight of  69,000 tons.
It's 258 feet wide and 1, 001 feet long.
4.02 acre flight deck that is 3 inches thick.
It's gas capacity is 3.4 million gallons.
Traveling a total of 100,000 per day. Using 260 gallons per mile.
It holds the all-time record at sea: 327 days.
This carrier also hold the all-time record for its year's of service: 47 years.
225,000 men served aboard. It had 20 different Skippers in 47 years.


Class: Aircraft Carrier
Launched March 20, 1945 at Newport News, Virginia
This carrier was commissioned in Sept. 10, 1945.
It was overhauled in 1996 -70 at a cost of $260 million.
Then it served in 1991 as a flagship in Desert Storm .
No other carrier served as long as the USS Midway.
 

 

 

The ship has 2,000 feet of chain! The anchors weigh 20 tons!.
The chain size is astonishing.


 

The Crew
600 men in engineering
225 Cooks
200 Pilots
40 Corpsmen
2 Doctors
1 Dentist
40 Skippers		 Chow Time
10 tons of food daily
13,500 meals served daily
3, 000 potatoes daily
1,000 loaves of bread daily
4,500 lbs. of beef when served
500 pies when served

 

 

Navy Showers

With very few exceptions, showers aboard warships employed a manually-operated shower nozzle to inhibit wastage of fresh water.

The framed "Navy Shower" involves using a blast of water to get damp, then the use of soap to build a lather while the nozzle is off and finally another blast to rinse off.

At sea, showers often seemed to lose pressure before the rinse as the engineers cut off fresh water to deal with a water issue.

The large Purple Pipes running through the rear of the shower carried jet fuel.

 

 

Sleeping Quarters

The higher your rank the better your quarters would be.
 

 

 

 

These doorways are small.
 

Walking up these stairs is like walking straight up.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed your visit!

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