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. Shown here in Measure 17 Dazzle System camouflage. 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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