USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105)
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| Keel laying: | September 23, 1943 |
| Launch: | May 9, 1944 |
| Commissioning: | November 27, 1944 |
| reserve | November 30, 1946 |
| Retirement: | May 7, 1959 |
| Whereabouts: | scrapped |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 11,370 ts |
| Length: | 169 m |
| Width: | 22.8 m |
| Largest width: | 32 m |
| Draft: | 9.6 m |
| Drive: | 2 steam turbines, 16,000 hp |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km / h) |
| Crew: | 1066 |
| Armament: | 2 × 5-inch guns 36 × 40-mm flak 20 × 20-mm flak |
| Airplanes: | 33 |
The USS Commencement Bay , an American escort aircraft carrier and lead ship of the Commencement Bay class , entered service with the identification number CVE-105 as the first ship of a new class on November 27, 1944.
The carrier had no combat use and was used as a training ship for the US Navy , for example for takeoffs and landings. A total of 545 officers and 5,053 crew members were trained on it.
After the war she was assigned to the reserve on November 30, 1946 and remained there until it was decommissioned on May 7, 1959.
Web links
Commons : USS Commencement Bay - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- History of USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- navsource.org (Eng.)