U.S.S. Santee
CVE-29
1942
(Neptun 1324aT)
- Class: Sangamon - 4 escort carriers of 1942
- Displacement: 11,400 tons
- Dimensions: 525(wl) 553(oa) x 75 (114.5 max) x 30.5 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared trubines, S.H.P. 13,500 = 18.3 knots
- Armament: 2-5"/38 (2x1), 8-40mm (4x2) A.A. guns
- Aircraft: 34
- Complement: 1,100
- Builder: Sun Shipbuilding / Norfolk Navy Yard
- Keel Laid: 31 May 1938
- Launched: 4 Mar 1939
- Acquired: 30 Oct 1940 as fleet oiler
- Commissioned: 24 Aug 1942
- Decommissioned: 21 Oct 1946
- Action: Laid down as mercantile T3 tanker Seakay; taken over as fleet oiler AO-29 and renamed Santee. Converted to escort carrier AVG-29 at Norfolk; later redesignated CVE-29. North Africa, Atlantic patrols, Guam, Leyte Gulf (damaged by Kamikaze and submarine torpedo 25 Oct 1944), Okinawa. Placed in reserve postwar, she was redesignated CVHE-29 in 1955, but never reactivated. Stricken in 1959 and scrapped Hamburg 1960.
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