Labels:transport | watercraft | ship | naval architecture | outdoor OCR: uss Hancock Homing beacon Air-search Arrestor During the Pacific war the ability to provide Height-finding radars wires 2 single air escort to convoys across vast expanses of Surface radlg Radar 10 single FOF Hellcat 20mm guro ocean was of crucial importance. The 20mm guns Essex-class large fleet carrier was conceived in Gun director jammer 1939 and the first was commissioned at Pilothouse Gallery Alt elevator the end of 1942. Illustrated here is the dock Hancock, completed in April 1944 Flight deck control 2 twin Long-wire 5in guns radar antennae F4U Corsair Bomb 5in guns on catapul Boat and aircraft elevator launcher crane 5 single 2 quadruple 10mm guns Crews 20mm guns Quartors 6 single Crash 20mm guns 7 single barriers Hangar 20mm guns Dock-edge roller-doors Hangar olovater Early 1943 A ...