USS Independence (CV-62) - Construction

Construction

The contract to build Independence, the fourth Forrestal-class carrier was awarded to the New York Navy Yard on 2 July 1954, with the ship being laid down on 1 July 1955. She was launched on 6 June 1958 by the wife of Thomas S. Gates, the Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 10 January 1959.

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