Some 70 years ago this week, the 968-foot Midway-class super carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), is seen being pushed out by tugs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 6 June 1956, offering a good view of her new hurricane bow and a trio of 5″/54 Mark 16 guns on her starboard sponsons. National Archives Identifier 7578593 Swanky Franky had just completed her 25-month SCB-110 conversion at the PSNS, which lasted from 5 March 1954 to 6 April 1956, and many excellent images of her are in the National Archives from that period. USS_Franklin D.Roosevelt (CVA-42) in June 1956 NARA 7578590 As noted by DANFS Workers at Puget Sound fitted Franklin D. Roosevelt with an angled flight deck, two C-11-1 and one C-11-2 steam catapults, a mirror landing system, a hurricane bow, and AN/SPS-8 height finding and AN/SPS-12 air search radars on a new mast, as part of a SCB-110 reconstruction plan. Workers also removed some of her 5-inch guns [6 out of 18], and the added measures increased her standard…
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