USS Card
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| Name: | USS Card |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1941 |
| Launched: | 27 February 1942 |
| Acquired: | 1 May 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 May 1958 as USNS Card |
| Decommissioned: | 10 March 1970 |
| Struck: | 15 September 1970 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Clatskanie, Oregon, 1971 |
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| Class and type: | Bogue-class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 9,800 long tons (9,957 t) |
| Length: | 496 ft (151 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 890 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 12 × TBM and 16 × FM-2 |
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USS Card (AVG-11/ACV-11/CVE-11/CVHE-11/CVU-11/T-CVU-11/T-AKV-40) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier. Her hull was laid down on 27 October 1941 as a C-3 cargo ship (type C3-S-A1) but she was acquired from the Maritime Commission while under construction and was converted into an escort carrier.
She was launched as hull 178 on 27 February 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Tacoma, Washington, sponsored by Mrs. J. Perry. Acquired by the Navy on 1 May 1942, she was designated AVG 11 (Aircraft Escort Vessel #11). Reclassified ACV-11 (Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier) on 20 August 1942 she was commissioned 8 November 1942 with Captain J. B. Sykes in command.
Departing San Diego 18 January 1943, the Card arrived at Hampton Roads 1 February for training in Chesapeake Bay. She ferried aircraft and troops for the North African invasion from New York to Casablanca (14 May–1 June), returning to Norfolk 5 July. She was reclassified CVE-11 on 15 July 1943. Card steamed from Norfolk as flagship of TG 21.14, one of the hunter-killer groups formed for offensive operations against German submarines. Her first cruise from 27 July to 10 September 1943 was very successful. Her planes sank U-117 on 7 August in 39°32′N 38°21′W / 39.533°N 38.350°W.; U-664 on 9 August in 40°12′N 37°29′W / 40.200°N 37.483°W.; U-525 on 11 August in 41°29′N 38°55′W / 41.483°N 38.917°W.; and U-847 on 27 August in 28°19′N 37°58′W / 28.317°N 37.967°W.
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