USS Hornet, CV-8, did sink at the Battle of Santa Cruz.
USS Hornet, CV-12, was renamed in honor of the sunk CV-8 and
still exists. She is a museum ship in Alameda, CA
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USS Hornet served only in the second world war. The CV-8 and the
CV-12.
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USS Hornet (CV-8), launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought
at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa
Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
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USS Yorktown (CV-5). She was the lead ship of the Yorktown-class
and sister ship to Enterprise (CV-6) and Hornet (CV-8)
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CVN-65 is the 65th Fleet Carrier designated to be built; some
carriers were assigned a number and never buillt, consequently
their number was skipped, so there were not 65 aircraft carriers
built when #65 was constructed. CV-1 was the USS Langley (sunk
during the time frame of the Battle of the Java Sea campaign); CV-2
was USS Lexington (sunk at the Battle of Coral Sea); CV-3 was USS
Saratoga (sunk during atomic bomb testing in 1946); CV-4 was USS
Ranger (only used in the Atlantic during the war, was deemed to
risky to assign her to the Pacific/ulitimately scrapped); CV-5 USS
Yorktown (sunk at Midway); CV-6 USS Enterprise (the USN's most
decorated warship/scrapped); CV-7 USS Wasp (Sunk during the battle
of Guadalcanal); CV-8 USS Hornet (sunk during the battle of the
Santa Cruz Islands); etc. CV-63 was the USS Kitty Hawk, CV-64 was
the USS Constellation, etc.