USS Rendova (CVE-114)
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| Name: | USS Rendova |
| Builder: | Todd-Pacific Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 15 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 29 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 22 October 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 January 1950 |
| Recommissioned: | 3 January 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 June 1955 |
| Reclassified: | Cargo Ship and Aircraft Ferry, AKV-14, 1959 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1971 |
| Homeport: | San Diego |
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| Class and type: | Commencement Bay-class escort carrier |
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| Length: | 557 ft (170 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Allis-Chambers, geared turbines, 16,000 shp |
| Speed: | 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,066 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 34 |
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| Awards: | 2 Battle stars (Korea) |
USS Rendova (CVE-114) was a Commencement Bay class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
She was originally assigned the name Mosser Bay and completed as the Willamette, she was laid down by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Washington, 15 June 1944; launched 29 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Anna-Marie H. Kurtz; and commissioned 22 October 1945, Capt. R. W. Ruble in command.
Rendova completed shakedown in early January 1946, and reported for duty with the 1st Fleet in February. During March, she conducted exercises off the west coast, but in April, her complement was reduced to a maintenance crew. Immobilized at San Diego for a year, she remained on the active list as the administrative headquarters for Carrier Division 15 (CarDiv 15). In the spring of 1947, she returned to full active duty and for the next year conducted training exercises off the west coast and in the Hawaiian Islands.
On 1 April 1948, she departed San Francisco en route to Turkey with a cargo of AT-6 training planes for that country's air force. Steaming via the Panama Canal, she arrived at Yesilkoy 28 April, off loaded her cargo, and continued her voyage 4 May. She moved south to Suez, thence crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans. With numerous good will visits en route, she returned to San Diego 1 July, only to depart again on another mission, this time to Tsingtao, on the 28th. At Tsingtao 23 August–27 August, she was back in San Diego, her homeport, in late September and through the fall trained on the west coast. With the new year, 1949, she again sailed west; operated between Tsingtao and Okinawa until mid-April; then returned to her homeport and resumed 1st Fleet training operations. In October, she arrived at Bremerton, where, after overhaul, she was decommissioned, 27 January 1950, and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
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