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USS Lake Champlain CV-39 Original Bridge Teak Wood Deck - Alan Shepard Recovery For Sale
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USS Lake Champlain CV-39 Original Bridge Teak Wood Deck - Alan Shepard Recovery:
$174.99
RARE USS Lake Champlain CV-39 Original Bridge Teak Wood Deck - Alan Shepard Recovery.
This piece of the deck was removed from the USS Lake Champlain following the decommissioning and dismantling of the ship. The piece was originally located off the bridge overlooking the flight deck. The piece of teak measures 30” by 1.25” by 1.25”.
USS Lake Champlain was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
Commissioned on 3 June 1945, Lake Champlain did not participate in World War II, but did serve as a transport, bringing troops home from Europe as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Like many of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, but was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s, and redesignated as an attack carrier (CVA). She participated in the Korean War but spent the rest of her career in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. In the late 1950s, she was redesignated as an antisubmarine carrier (CVS).
Lake Champlain was the prime recovery ship for the first crewed Project Mercury mission (Freedom 7), the second uncrewed Gemini mission (Gemini 2), and for the third crewed Gemini (Gemini 5) space mission.
Lake Champlain was selected as the prime recovery ship for America's first crewed space flight. She sailed for the recovery area on 1 May, and was on station on 5 May when Commander Alan Shepard was recovered, along with his spacecraft Freedom 7, after splashdown some 300 miles (480 km) down range from Cape Canaveral. Helicopters from the carrier visually tracked the descent of the capsule and were over it two minutes after splashdown. They recovered Shepard and the Freedom 7 capsule, delivering them safely to Lake Champlain's flight deck.
An awesome piece of American history. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you for looking.
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