USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56)
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| Name: | USS Liscome Bay |
| Builder: | Kaiser Shipyards, Vancouver, Washington |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 19 April 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 7 August 1943 |
| Fate: | Sunk by Japanese submarine I-175 on 24 November 1943 |
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| Class and type: | Casablanca-class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 7,800 tons (standard), 10,902 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 512 ft 4 in (156.16 m) overall |
| Beam: | 65 ft 3 in (19.89 m), Extreme width: 108 ft 1 in (32.94 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
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| Speed: | 20 knots (37 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 |
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| Part of: | United States Pacific Fleet (1943) |
| Commanders: | Captain I.D. Wiltsie |
| Operations: | Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign |
USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), a Casablanca-class escort carrier during World War II, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Liscome Bay in Dall Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska. She was lost to a submarine attack during Operation Galvanic, with a catastrophic loss of life, on 24 November 1943.
Her keel was laid down on 9 December 1942 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company of Vancouver, Washington, under a United States Maritime Commission contract.
She was originally to have been given to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease as HMS Ameer, but was appropriated by the U.S. Navy while still being built.
She was launched on 19 April 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Ben Moreell, wife of the Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards & Docks. She was named Liscome Bay on 28 June 1943 and assigned the hull classification symbol CVE-56 on 15 July 1943. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 7 August 1943, Captain Irving D. Wiltsie in command.
After training operations along the West Coast, the Liscome Bay departed from San Diego, California, on 21 October 1943, arriving at Pearl Harbor one week later. Once additional drills and operational exercises were completed, the escort carrier set off on what was to be her first and last battle mission. As a member of Carrier Division 24 (CarDiv 24), she departed from Pearl Harbor on 10 November attached to TF 52, Northern Attack Force, under Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner, bound for the invasion of the Gilbert Islands.
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