Second Deck & Below

Spaces Currently Open to the Public ( * = docent-led only)

Second Deck:

• Forward Auxiliary Emergency Generator Room, lower level
• Pilot Ready Room 2 * - used for Aviation Merit Badge classes
• Officers' Wardroom – where officers ate and attended meetings
• Wardroom Lounge – where off-duty officers could socialize, read, watch movies, and relax
• Wardroom Pantry – officers’ meals were cooked in the Galley one deck below and served from the pantry
• Officers’ Staterooms – officers’ quarters
• Pilot Ready Room 3 – Electronic Warfare exhibit is displayed here
• Pilot Ready Room 4 – where pilots received their mission briefings (pictorial exhibit of fighter/attack aircraft)
• Marine Detachment (MARDET) – Marines office, berthing, head, and lounge
• Garbage Disposal Room
• Auxiliary Laundry – primarily used by the medical department
• Medical Spaces & Sick Bay – HORNET contained a complete hospital with operating rooms, examination rooms, pharmacy, labs, and ward
• Crew’s Berthing – sleeping quarters with bunks
• Crew’s Water Closets & Wash Rooms - operational for visitors
• Chapel/Library
• Torpedo Shop
• CPO Mess / CPO Lounge / CPO Pantry – Chief Petty Officers were the senior enlisted men
• Crew’s VS-35 Berthing
• Repair Locker 3

Third Deck: *

• Brig – the ship’s jail
• Special Weapons – HORNET carried nuclear weapons
• Port Catapult Room – houses machinery that operates the catapults
• Dental
• Bakery
• Crew's Mess / Crew's Galley – used by the museum youth Live-Aboard Program
• Crew's Berthing Spaces -

Fourth Deck: *

• Engine Room – HORNET propulsion provided by four steam-powered, gear-turbine engines

For a comprehensive virtual tour, purchase Grey Ghost: The Story of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet.