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margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">CVA-36, 1 October 1952</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">CVS-36, 1 August 1953</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td><a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">Scrapped</a>, 28 February 1974</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Essex-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Essex-class aircraft carrier"><i>Essex</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>27,100 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (27,500 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>) standard</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>888 feet (271 m) overall</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>93 feet (28 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>28 feet 7 inches (8.71 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">8 × boilers</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">150,000 shp (110 MW)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × geared <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × shafts</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>33 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (61 km/h; 38 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>3448 officers and enlisted</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 × <a href="/wiki/5_inch_(127_mm)/38_caliber_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber gun">5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">32 × <a href="/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_Automatic_Gun_L/60" class="mw-redirect" title="Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60">Bofors 40 mm guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">46 × <a href="/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon" title="Oerlikon 20 mm cannon">Oerlikon 20 mm cannons</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armor</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">Belt</a>: 4 in (102 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Hangar deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">Conning tower</a>: 1.5 inch</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Aircraft carried</td><td>90–100 aircraft</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USS <i>Antietam</i> (CV/CVA/CVS-36)</b> was one of 24 <a href="/wiki/Essex-class_aircraft_carrier" title="Essex-class aircraft carrier"><i>Essex</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carriers</a> built during and shortly after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam" title="Battle of Antietam">Battle of Antietam</a> (Maryland). <i>Antietam</i> was commissioned in January 1945, too late to serve actively in World War II. After serving a short time in the Far East, she was decommissioned in 1949. She was soon recommissioned for <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> service, and in that conflict earned two <a href="/wiki/Battle_stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle stars">battle stars</a>. In the early 1950s, she was redesignated an attack carrier (CVA) and then an antisubmarine warfare carrier (CVS). After the Korean War she spent the rest of her career operating in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. From 1957 until her deactivation, she was the Navy's training carrier, operating out of Florida. </p><p><i>Antietam</i> was fitted with a port <a href="/wiki/Sponson" title="Sponson">sponson</a> in 1952 to make her the world's first true <a href="/wiki/Flight_deck#Angled_flight_deck" title="Flight deck">angled-deck</a> aircraft carrier. However, she received no major modernizations other than this, and thus throughout her career largely retained the classic appearance of a World War II <i>Essex</i>-class ship. She was decommissioned in 1963, and sold for scrap in 1974. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_career">Construction and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Antietam_(CV-36)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Construction and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Antietam</i> was one of the <a href="/wiki/Essex-class_aircraft_carrier#"Long-hull"_Essex_(Ticonderoga_class)" title="Essex-class aircraft carrier">"long-hull"</a> <i>Essex</i>-class ships. The <a href="/wiki/Keel" title="Keel">keel</a> was laid on 15 March 1943 at the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Navy_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Navy Yard">Philadelphia Navy Yard</a>. The ship was <a href="/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship naming and launching">launched</a> on 20 August 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Millard E. Tydings, the wife of <a href="/wiki/Millard_Tydings" title="Millard Tydings">Senator Tydings</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>. <i>Antietam</i> was <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 28 January 1945, with <a href="/wiki/Captain_(naval)" title="Captain (naval)">Captain</a> James R. Tague in command.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II_and_occupation_of_Japan">World War II and occupation of Japan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Antietam_(CV-36)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War II and occupation of Japan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Antietam_(CV-36)_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg/220px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg/330px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg/440px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_off_Philadelphia_Navy_Yard_1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1678" data-file-height="1099" /></a><figcaption><i>Antietam</i> off Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1945</figcaption></figure> <p>The aircraft carrier completed fitting out at <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> until 2 March 1945, when she got underway for her shakedown cruise. The ship arrived in <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> on 5 March and conducted operations from <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a> until 22 March, when she stood out of <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> bound for <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_West_Indies" title="British West Indies">British West Indies</a>. At the conclusion of her shakedown cruise, <i>Antietam</i> returned to Philadelphia on 28 April to begin post-shakedown availability. She completed repairs on 19 May and departed Philadelphia that same day. After a three-day stop at Norfolk, the warship resumed her voyage to the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> in company with <a href="/wiki/USS_Higbee" title="USS Higbee"><i>Higbee</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_George_W._Ingram" title="USS George W. Ingram"><i>George W. Ingram</i></a>, and <a href="/wiki/USS_Ira_Jeffery" title="USS Ira Jeffery"><i>Ira Jeffery</i></a>. She arrived at <a href="/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal,_Panama" class="mw-redirect" title="Cristóbal, Panama">Cristóbal</a> on 31 May, transited the Panama Canal the next day, and continued her voyage up the coast to <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>. She stopped at San Diego from 10 to 13 June before beginning the first leg of her transpacific voyage. Antietam arrived in <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> on 19 June and remained in the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a> conducting training missions until 12 August. On that day, she shaped a course for the western Pacific.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Three days out of <a href="/wiki/Oahu" title="Oahu">Oahu</a>, she received word of the Japanese capitulation and the consequent cessation of hostilities. Thus, by the time of her arrival in <a href="/wiki/Eniwetok_Atoll" class="mw-redirect" title="Eniwetok Atoll">Eniwetok Atoll</a> on 19 August, her mission changed from combat to occupation support duty. On 21 August, she exited the lagoon in company with <a href="/wiki/USS_Cabot_(CVL-28)" title="USS Cabot (CVL-28)"><i>Cabot</i></a> and a screen of destroyers bound for Japan. En route, she suffered some internal damage which forced her into port at <a href="/wiki/Apra_Harbor" title="Apra Harbor">Apra Harbor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, for inspections. The inspection party deemed the damage minimal; and the carrier remained operational, resuming her course on 27 August. By that time, however, her destination had been changed to the coast of the Asian mainland. She stopped at <a href="/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture" title="Okinawa Prefecture">Okinawa</a> between 30 August and 1 September, and arrived in Chinese waters near Shanghai the following day.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The aircraft carrier remained in the Far East for a little more than three years. The <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Sea" title="Yellow Sea">Yellow Sea</a> constituted her primary theater of operations while her air group provided support for the Allied occupation of North China, <a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>. During the latter stages of that assignment, her airmen conducted surveillance missions in that area as a result of the civil war in China between communist and nationalist factions which later resulted in the expulsion of <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a>'s forces from mainland China and the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>'s communist People's Republic of China. Throughout the period, however, she did depart the Yellow Sea on occasion for visits to Japan, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, Okinawa, and the Marianas. Early in 1949, she concluded her mission in the Orient and headed back to the United States for deactivation. She was decommissioned on 21 June 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korean_War">Korean War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Antietam_(CV-36)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Korean War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Antietam_(CVA-36)_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg/220px-USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg/330px-USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg/440px-USS_Antietam_%28CVA-36%29_moored_at_Yokosuka_c1951.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="674" /></a><figcaption><i>Antietam</i> in Yokosuka, 1951</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Antietam</i> remained in reserve at <a href="/wiki/Alameda,_California" title="Alameda, California">Alameda, California</a>, but after Communist forces from <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> invaded <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> on 25 June 1950, she began reactivation preparations on 6 December and went back into commission on 17 January 1951, with Captain <a href="/wiki/George_J._Dufek" title="George J. Dufek">George J. Dufek</a> in command. Initially, the carrier conducted shakedown training and carrier qualifications along the California coast, first out of Alameda and – after 14 May – out of San Diego. She made one voyage to Pearl Harbor and back to San Diego in July and August before departing the latter port on 8 September and heading for the Far East. <i>Antietam</i> arrived in the Far East later that fall and, by late November, began the only combat deployment of her career. During that tour, she made four cruises with <a href="/wiki/Task_Force_77_(U.S._Navy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Task Force 77 (U.S. Navy)">Task Force 77</a> (TF 77), in the combat zone off the coast of the Korean peninsula. In between fighting assignments, she returned to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fleet_Activities_Yokosuka" title="United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka">Yokosuka</a>, Japan. During each of those periods, her air group carried out a variety of missions in support of United Nations forces combating North Korean aggression. Those missions included combat air patrol, logistics interdiction, particularly against railroad and highway traffic, reconnaissance, antisubmarine patrols, and night heckler missions. From late November 1951 to mid-March 1952, <i>Antietam</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s air group flew nearly 6,000 sorties of all types. She returned to Yokosuka on 21 March 1952 at the conclusion of her fourth cruise with TF 77 to begin preparations for her voyage back to the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_years">Later years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Antietam_(CV-36)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Antietam_(CV-36)_returns_from_Korea,_in_March_1952.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg/220px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg/330px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg/440px-USS_Antietam_%28CV-36%29_returns_from_Korea%2C_in_March_1952.jpg 2x" data-file-width="839" data-file-height="315" /></a><figcaption><i>Antietam</i> returning from Korea in March 1952</figcaption></figure> <p>The aircraft carrier returned home in April and rejoined the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Reserve_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Reserve Fleet">Pacific Reserve Fleet</a> briefly. She was reactivated later that summer and, in August, transited the Panama Canal to join the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fleet_Forces_Command" title="United States Fleet Forces Command">Atlantic Fleet</a>. In September, the warship entered the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Naval_Shipyard" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Naval Shipyard">New York Naval Shipyard</a> for major alterations. In October, she was redesignated an attack aircraft carrier, <i>CVA-36</i>. In December 1952 <i>Antietam</i> emerged from the yard as the world's first carrier with a true angled flight deck. The principle had been tried on other carriers with lines painted on an axis deck. <i>Antietam</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s deck was based on a rudimentary <a href="/wiki/Sponson" title="Sponson">sponson</a>. The installation allowed for true angle deck tests, including arrested landings.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trials with British and US units proved during trials to be superior to the usual fore-aft deck.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She operated out of <a href="/wiki/Quonset_Point" title="Quonset Point">Quonset Point</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, until the beginning of 1955. During the intervening years, she participated in numerous fleet and independent ship's exercises. Detachment #39 from <a href="/wiki/List_of_inactive_United_States_Navy_aircraft_squadrons#Composite_squadrons_.28VC.29" title="List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons">VC-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/NAS_Atlantic_City" class="mw-redirect" title="NAS Atlantic City">NAS Atlantic City</a> was sent out on the Antietam on 9 June 1953. The stated purpose was to show off the canted deck capabilities to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>. There were two aircraft with pilots and 13 enlisted men. Two days of flight operation took place with all sorts of Royal Navy aircraft making touch and gos. The F3Ds were used to give Royal Navy VIPs <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_catapult" title="Aircraft catapult">catapult shots</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arrested_landing" class="mw-redirect" title="Arrested landing">arrested landings</a>. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The VC-4 pilots were air lifted back to the states on 3 July and the F3Ds were off loaded and flown back to Atlantic City from Rhode Island.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> After August 1953, during which time she was redesignated an <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_warfare_carrier" title="Anti-submarine warfare carrier">Anti-submarine warfare carrier</a> (ASW), CVS-36 <i>Antietam</i> concentrated up on honing her hunter/killer skills.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Korean_War">Post-Korean War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Antietam_(CV-36)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-Korean War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 1955, she embarked upon a voyage to the Mediterranean Sea where she served with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Sixth_Fleet" title="United States Sixth Fleet">6th Fleet</a> until March. Resuming duty with the Atlantic Fleet ASW forces, she operated along the eastern seaboard until the fall of 1956. In October of that year, she cruised to the waters of the eastern Atlantic for <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_warfare" title="Anti-submarine warfare">ASW</a> exercises and goodwill visits to ports in Allied countries. She ran aground off <a href="/wiki/Brest,_France" title="Brest, France">Brest</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, on 22 October 1956, but was refloated undamaged.<sup id="cite_ref-Times231056_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times231056-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the carrier was in <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>, the Suez crisis broke out in the eastern Mediterranean. <i>Antietam</i> cut short her visit to the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> and headed for the Mediterranean to bolster the 6th Fleet during the evacuation of American citizens from <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt. At the end of that assignment, she conducted ASW training exercises with Italian naval officers embarked before returning to Quonset Point on 22 December.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Antietam_(CVS-36)_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg/220px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg/330px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg/440px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_during_Bell_automatic_landing_system_test_1957.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1859" data-file-height="1471" /></a><figcaption><i>Antietam</i> with her angled deck in 1957</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Antietam_(CVS-36)_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg/220px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg/330px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg/440px-USS_Antietam_%28CVS-36%29_underway_with_HSS_and_S2F_1957.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1891" data-file-height="1339" /></a><figcaption><i>Antietam</i> with <a href="/wiki/S2F-1_Tracker" class="mw-redirect" title="S2F-1 Tracker">S2F-1 Tracker</a> and <a href="/wiki/HSS-1_Seabat" class="mw-redirect" title="HSS-1 Seabat">HSS-1 Seabats</a> on 31 January 1957</figcaption></figure> <p>After resuming operations along the eastern seaboard early in 1957, <i>Antietam</i> was assigned on 21 April 1957 to training duty with the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola" title="Naval Air Station Pensacola">Naval Air Station Pensacola</a>, Florida. <a href="/wiki/Naval_Station_Mayport" title="Naval Station Mayport">Mayport</a> however, served as her home port because ships of her draft could not then enter port at Pensacola. For almost two years the aircraft carrier operated out of Mayport training new Navy pilots and conducting tests on new aviation equipment—most noteworthy on the Bell automatic landing system during August 1958. She also participated in annual <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Academy" title="United States Naval Academy">Naval Academy</a> midshipmen cruises each summer.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In January 1959, after the deepening of the channel into Pensacola had been completed, <i>Antietam</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s home port was changed from Mayport to Pensacola. For the remainder of her active career, the carrier operated out of Pensacola as an aviation training ship.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The deck of the <i>Antietam</i> served as the launching pad for the stratospheric balloon flight of <a href="/wiki/Commander_(United_States)" title="Commander (United States)">Commander</a> <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Ross_(balloonist)" title="Malcolm Ross (balloonist)">Malcolm D. Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_commander_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant commander (United States)">Lieutenant Commander</a> <a href="/wiki/Victor_Prather" title="Victor Prather">Victor A. Prather</a>, both of the United States Navy, on 4 May 1961. This flight set an absolute official altitude record for manned balloons of 113,740 feet (34,670 m). The flight took place over the Gulf of Mexico. During recovery, Prather slipped from the rescue helicopter's lifting harness and fell into the ocean; he died from his injuries onboard <i>Antietam</i>. Commander Ross was successfully recovered.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On two occasions, she provided humanitarian services to victims of <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricane</a> damage. The first came in September 1961 when she rushed to the Texas coast to provide supplies and medical assistance to the victims of <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Carla" title="Hurricane Carla">Hurricane Carla</a>. The second came just over a month later when she carried medical supplies, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">British Honduras</a> to help the victims of <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Hattie" title="Hurricane Hattie">Hurricane Hattie</a>. Otherwise, she spent the final four years of her naval career in routine naval aviation training duty out of Pensacola. On 23 October 1962, <i>Antietam</i> was relieved by <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ship</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Lexington_(CV-16)" title="USS Lexington (CV-16)"><i>Lexington</i></a> as aviation training ship at Pensacola and was placed in commission, in reserve, on 7 January 1963. Berthed at Philadelphia, she remained in reserve until May 1973 when her name was struck from the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Register" title="Naval Vessel Register">Navy List</a>. On 28 February 1974, she was sold to the Union Minerals & Alloys Corp. for scrapping.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Lee</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">5 Apr: <a href="/wiki/SS_Barossa" title="SS Barossa"><i>Barossa</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Eaton" title="USS Eaton">USS <i>Eaton</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Wisconsin_(BB-64)" title="USS Wisconsin (BB-64)">USS <i>Wisconsin</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 May: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Talent_(P337)" title="HMS Talent (P337)">HMS <i>Talent</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 May: <a href="/wiki/SS_Orsova_(1953)" title="SS Orsova (1953)">SS <i>Orsova</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 May: <a href="/wiki/RMS_Caronia_(1947)" title="RMS Caronia (1947)"><i>Caronia</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Jul: <a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Driver" title="SS Empire Driver"><i>Dea Mazzella</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Jul: <a href="/wiki/MV_Astoria" title="MV Astoria"><i>Stockholm</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">12 Oct: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Anchorite_(P422)" title="HMS Anchorite (P422)">HMS <i>Anchorite</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Oct: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">USS <i>Antietam</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 Oct: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Mendip_(L60)" title="HMS Mendip (L60)"><i>Ibrahim-El-Awal</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Nov: <a href="/wiki/NOAAS_Murre_II" title="NOAAS Murre II"><i>Murre II</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">14 Nov: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Nairana_(D05)" title="HMS Nairana (D05)"><i>Port Victor</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <a href="/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano" title="ARA General Belgrano">ARA <i>General Belgrano</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/ARA_Nueve_de_Julio_(C-5)" title="ARA Nueve de Julio (C-5)">ARA <i>Nueve de Julio</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1955" title="List of shipwrecks in 1955">1955</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1955" title="List of shipwrecks in 1955"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/12px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/18px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg/24px-Arrow_Blue_Left_001.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1957" title="List of shipwrecks in 1957"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/12px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/18px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg/24px-Arrow_Blue_Right_001.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1957" title="List of shipwrecks in 1957">1957</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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