This photo shows Hornet en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 January 1954, during shakedown following completion of her SCB-27A modernization.
USS Hornet
(CV-12)
The Hornet was reclassified as an attack carrier (CVA-12) on October 10, 1952. She was recommissioned at the New York Naval Shipyard on September 11, 1953.