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LAKE CHAMPLAIN

The USS Lake Champlain was an American Essex Class fleet aircraft carrier of 27100 tons displacement launched in 1944. The USS Lake Champlain was powered by eight Babcock and Wilcox boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. She carried a complement of 2900 and normally 82 aircraft though up to 103 could be carried. She was armed with twelve 5 inch guns; seventy-two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and fifty-two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns mounted in quads.
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