COMMENCEMENT BAY CLASS CVE 105 - 123 (19 ships)
BADOENG STRAIT (ex- San Alberto Bay, Feb. 15, 1945)
BAIROKO (ex- Portage Bay, Jan. 25, 1945)
BLOCK ISLANDS (ex- Sunset Bay, June 10, 1944)
CAPE GLOUCESTER (ex- Willapa Bay, Sept. 12, 1944)
COMMENCEMENT BAY (ex- St. Joseph`s Bay, May 9, 1944)
GILBERT ISLANDS (ex- St. Andrew`s
Bay, July 20, 1944)
KULA GULF (ex- Vermilion Bay, Aug.
15, 1944)
MINDORO (June 27, 1945)
PALAU (Aug. 6, 1945)
POINT CRUZ (ex- Trocadero Bay,
May 18,1945)
PUGET SOUND (ex- Hobart Bay, Nov.
30,1944)
RABAUL (July 14, 1945)
RENDOVA (ex- Mosser Bay, Dec. 28,
1944)
SAIDOR (ex- Saltery Bay, March
17, 1945)
SALERNO BAY (ex- Winjah Bay, Sept.
26, 1944)
SIBONEY (ex- Frost yBay, Nov. 9,
1944)
SICILY (ex- Sandy Bay, April 14,
1945)
TINIAN (Sept. 5, 1945)
VELLA GULF (ex- Totem Bay, Oct.
19, 1944) |
Displacement: 12,000 tons
Complement: 1,000
Length: 553 ft (o.a.)
Beam: 70 ft
Draught: 30.5 ft
Aircraft: 34
Guns:
26 - 40 mm AA
30 - 20 mm AA
Armour:
Machinery: Geared turbines. 2 shafts. S.H.P.: 16,000 = 20
kts.
Notes: All built by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Tacoma; cost
reported to be $11,000,000 each. Design modeled on that of Sangamon
type. Sixteen more ships of this class, Bastogne, Eniwetok,
Lingayen, Okinawa, and CVE 128 - 139, were cancelled in August,
1945.
COMMENCEMENT BAY |
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