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NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive

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	14 May 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 (mostly to do with bomb damage in magazines). 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 starting in November 1949. (Source: DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, located on the Naval Historical Center website. Special thanks to Ron Reeves, who provided additional information.)

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NS098631101	170k	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: A Continental Navy brigantine. 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.)	NavSource
Reprisal (CV-35)
NS023501	159k	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
NS023501a	464k		Ron Reeves
NS023501b	254k	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
NS023501c	256k		NHHC, via Ron Reeves
NS023502	230k	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
NS023502a	599k
NS023502d	475k
NS023502b	237k	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
NS023502c	238k		NHHC, via Ron Reeves
NS023503	172k	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
NS023503a	488k
NS023503b	160k
NS023503c	151k
NS023506	163k	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
NS023504	276k	"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
NS023505	128k	"*Reprisal* CV 35 Floated out today[, 14 May 1945,] From drydock Brooklyn Navy Yard."	Ron Reeves