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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Albert W. Grant** Fletcher-class Destroyer**
Cool. We don't have many destroyer members yet.
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The numbers are deceptive. You have less big boats but they have 2000 men crews. You have many many small boats but with 300 man crews. So all in all, there may have been more men on all the aircraft carriers than there were on all the Destroyers and escorts. I just don't know. Those big boats really sucked up the manpower.
A Yorktown class aircraft carrier had 2200 crew.
A North Carolina class battleship had 1800 crew.
An Alaska class cruiser had a crew of 670.
A Fletcher class destroyer had a crew of 330.
So a Yorktown class aircraft carrier carries as many men as 7 Fletcher class destroyers.