USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
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USS San Jacinto off the U.S. East Coast
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| Builder: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 26 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 15 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 March 1947 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
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| Class and type: | Independence-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 11,000 |
| Length: | 622.5 ft (189.7 m) |
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| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 31.6 knots |
| Complement: | 1,549 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 45 aircraft |
The second USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) of the United States Navy was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier that served during World War II. She was named for the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution. Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush served aboard the ship during World War II.
Originally laid down as the light cruiser Newark (CL-100), on 26 October 1942 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, New Jersey; redesignated CV-30 and renamed Reprisal on 2 June 1942; renamed San Jacinto on 30 January 1943, converted, while building, to a light aircraft carrier and reclassified as CVL-30; launched on 26 September 1943; sponsored by Mary Gibbs Jones (wife of U.S. Commerce Secretary Jesse H. Jones); and commissioned on 15 November 1943, Capt. Harold M. Martin, in command.
After shakedown in the Caribbean, San Jacinto sailed, via the Panama Canal, San Diego, and Pearl Harbor, for the Pacific war zone. Arriving at Majuro, Marshall Islands, she joined Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58/38, the fast carrier striking force of the Pacific Fleet. There, San Jacinto embarked Air Group 51, whose fighters and torpedo planes would be the ship's chief weapons in battle.
After providing search patrols to protect other carriers striking at Wake and Marcus Islands, San Jacinto, by 5 June 1944, was ready to participate in the largest fleet action since the battle of Midway, almost exactly two years before. On that day, Task Force 58 sortied from Majuro and headed toward the Marianas to conduct air strikes preparatory to American seizure of Saipan and to protect the invasion forces from enemy air and naval attack.
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