Aircraft Carrier Randolph, 1944

Drawn from the original CV9-15 Essex class aircraft carrier drawings, these aircraft carrier Randolph (CV-15) deck plans show the ship as she appeared in January 1945 after additional alterations at the Alameda Naval Air Station and before the ship deployed into the Pacific for the first time. The original Essex aircraft carrier plans highlight the evolving nature of the design as lessons learned from the Pacific Theater drove ongoing changes to each new ship. As an aircraft carrier, the Randolph's primary armament consisted of several squadrons of aircraft. The aircraft were stored on the main deck in a spacious hanger with the lower decks containing the aircraft spare control surfaces, tires, and engines. Replacement aircraft wings were hung under the flight deck where they could be quickly retrieved and swapped onto battle damaged planes while the ammunition for the planes was stored on the lower decks and belted on the gallery deck. The Randolph's deck plans show typical military vessel features, such as bomb storage, bomb elevators, ammunition storage, a torpedo workshop, ammunition ready rooms, radar rooms, armory, squadron ready rooms, and a propeller shop for the aircraft. For the crew, the Randolph sported a barber shop, cobbler shop, laundry room, tailor shop, motion picture room, messing areas, and ubiquitous crew bunks which were normally stacked 3 or 4 high. The Randolph Essex class aircraft carrier deck plans offer a view into the mighty Essex class, the ships that helped win WW2 in the Pacific.

Deck Plans

Below is our collection of plans for the aircraft carrier Randolph. Each deck is printed individually and includes an abbreviation and symbol table, except for the island decks which are combined on a single drawing along with a profile view of those same decks.

Randolph Profile (inner view)

Island Decks

Flight Deck

Preview

Gallery Deck

Forecastle Deck

Main Deck

2nd Deck

3rd Deck

4th Deck

1st Platform

2nd Platform

Hold

3rd Bottom

Double Bottom

Lines Plans

The lines plans include hull dimensions to assist the modeler in accurately recreating the ship's hull.

Body plan

The body plan includes the following stations: F, E, D, C, B, A, 0.5, 1, 2 through 40, and 40.5

Sheer plan

The sheer plan includes the following buttock lines (in feet from ship's centerline): 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23'6", 26'6", 31'6", 36, 40, 46'6"

Half-breadth plan

The half-breadth plan includes the following waterlines: 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23'6", 26'6", 31'6", 37, 43, 49, 54'8-1/4"

Purchasing Plans

All orders include both the deck and the lines plans shown above. We offer our Randolph deck plans in a 1:192 scale but individuals interested in a different plan size may request a custom scaled plan. Please contact us for custom scaled plans.

Note that we only sell paper copies of our plans; no pdf files are offered.