Talk:Johnston/@comment-85.76.32.212-20181227203021/@comment-85.76.32.212-20181228225709

The other Essexes took barely scatches compared to what Franklin and Bunker Hill suffered plus somebody commenced to crash Franklin into port after it. Saving them for a later remodel is also a reasonable theory, but I don't remember if it was ever confirmed and they still remodeled seven Essexes which were completed after the war.