USS Chenango (CVE-28)
USS Chenango
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| Name: | SS Esso New Orleans |
| Owner: | Standard Oil Company |
| Builder: | Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down: | 10 July 1938 |
| Launched: | 1 April 1939 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Rathbone |
| Fate: | Purchased by the US Navy |
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| Name: | USS Chenango |
| Acquired: | 31 May 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 20 June 1941, as AO-31 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1942 |
| Recommissioned: | 19 September 1942, as ACV-28 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 August 1946 |
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| Struck: | 1 March 1959 |
| Fate: | Sold, 12 February 1960 |
| General characteristics as escort carrier | |
| Class and type: | Sangamon-class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 11,400 long tons (11,600 t) |
| Length: | 553 ft (169 m) |
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| Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
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| Speed: | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,080 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (130 mm)/51 cal guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 31 |
| Aviation facilities: | 2 × elevators |
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| Operations: | World War II |
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The second USS Chenango (CVE-28) (originally designated as oiler AO-31, after redesignation as escort carrier, was first ACV-28) was launched on 1 April 1939 as Esso New Orleans by the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, in Chester, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Mrs. Rathbone; acquired by the United States Navy on 31 May 1941; and commissioned on 20 June 1941 as AO-31, with Commander W. H. Mays in command.
Assigned to the Naval Transportation Service, Chenango steamed in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as far as Honolulu on tanker duty. Chenango was present at Aruba, N.W.I. on 16 February 1942 when a German submarine shelled one of the island's refineries. She was decommissioned at New York on 16 March for conversion to an escort carrier.
Her conversion complete, she was recommissioned as ACV-28 on 19 September 1942. Carrying 77 P-40 Warhawks of the 33rd Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces, Chenango sailed on 23 October with the Torch assault force bound for North Africa, and on 10 November, flew off her aircraft to newly won Port Lyautey, French Morocco. She put into Casablanca on 13 November to refuel 21 destroyers before returning to Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 November, battling through a hurricane en route which caused extensive damage.
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