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Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
STATUS:
Awarded: ?
Laid down: January 26, 1943 (as Ticonderoga)
renamed Hancock on May 1, 1943
Launched: January 24, 1944
Commissioned: April 15, 1944
Decommissioned: May 9, 1947
in reserve
SCB-27C conversion began on December 15, 1951
reclassified CVA 19 in October 1952
Recommissioned: February 15, 1954
Decommissioned: April 13, 1956
SCB-125 modernization April – November 1956
Recommissioned: November 15, 1956
reclassified CV 19 on June 30, 1975
Decommissioned: January 30, 1976
Fate: sold for scrap on September 1, 1976 / finally scrapped
Namesake: John Hancock (1737-1793)
Ships Motto: ?
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