U.S.S. Mission Bay
CVE-59
1943
(Neptun 1321T)
- Class: Casablanca - 50 escort carriers of 1942
- Displacement: 7,800 tons
- Dimensions: 490(wl) 512.25(oa) x 65.5 (108 max) x 19.75 ft.
- Machinery: 1-shaft Skinner Uniflow reciprocating, I.H.P. 9,000 = 19.25 knots
- Armament: 1-5in/38 (1x1), 16-40mm (8x2) A.A. guns
- Aircraft: 28
- Complement: 860
- Builder: Kaiser, Vancouver WA
- Keel Laid: 28 Dec 1942
- Launched: 26 May 1943
- Commissioned: 13 Sep 1943
- Decommissioned: 21 Feb 1947
- Action: Atlantic ASW and convoy escort carrier, with one transport deployment to India in early 1944. Shown here in Measure 32/4A Medium Pattern System camouflage. Further transport duties postwar before decommissioning. Placed in reserve, redesignated CVU-59 in 1955, stricken in 1958 and broken up in 1960.
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