USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99)
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| Name: | USS Admiralty Islands |
| Builder: | Kaiser Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 26 February 1944 |
| Launched: | 10 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 13 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 8 May 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping on 2 January 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Casablanca-class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 7,800 tons (light), 10,400 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 512 ft 3 in (156.13 m) overall |
| Beam: | 65 ft 2 in (19.86 m), 108 ft 1 in (32.94 m) maximum width |
| Draft: | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,240 nmi (18,960 km) @ 15 kn (28 km/h) |
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| Armament: | 1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal dual purpose gun, 16 × Bofors 40 mm guns (8×2), 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (20×1) |
| Aircraft carried: | 28 |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | United States Pacific Fleet (1944–1946) |
| Operations: | Invasion of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa, Operation Magic Carpet |
| Awards: | 3 battle stars |
USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99) was a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier, named after the Admiralty Islands group north of New Guinea, scene of fighting early in 1944.
Laid down as USS Chaplin Bay, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1136) on 26 February 1944 by the Kaiser Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington, she was renamed Admiralty Islands on 26 April 1944, launched on 10 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Homer N. Wallin, and commissioned at Astoria, Oregon, on 13 June 1944, Captain J. D. Barner in temporary command. Later that day, command of the ship passed to Captain M. E. A. Gouin.
The escort carrier departed bayside on 2 July for shakedown training in Puget Sound and then sailed for San Francisco to take on fuel oil and aviation gas. She arrived at San Diego on 14 July for further training before becoming a unit of the Carrier Transport Squadron, Pacific Fleet, with the task of transporting aircraft, material, and personnel to support front line carrier operations.
After a brief pause at Pearl Harbor, Admiralty Islands got underway for the Marshall Islands. She disembarked her cargo at Majuro Atoll on 9 August and immediately returned to Pearl Harbor. The carrier then shuttled more planes and personnel back to San Francisco, arriving there on the 24th. She spent the month of September making a shuttle from the west coast to Finschhafen, New Guinea, and back. Upon her arrival at San Diego on 7 October, the ship underwent alterations from the 8th through the 26th. On 29 October, Admiralty Islands sailed for Naval Air Station Alameda, to load Army aircraft and personnel for transportation to New Guinea. She reached Finschhafen on 21 November, unloaded, and continued on to Manus Island. After a brief pause at Seeadler Harbor on 23 November, she touched at Pearl Harbor on 6–7 December before reaching San Diego a week later to load aircraft and military personnel. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 24 December and on the day after Christmas got underway for Guam.
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