USS Rendova (CVE 114)

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USS Rendova (CVE 114)
USS Rendova (CVE 114)
Overview
Type Escort aircraft carrier
Keel laying June 15, 1944
Launch December 28, 1944
1. Period of service flag
period of service

Oct 22, 1945 - Jan 27, 1950
Jan 3, 1951 - June 30, 1955

Whereabouts scrapped
Technical specifications
displacement

11,370 ts

length

169 m

width

Waterline : 22.8 m,
flight deck : 32 m

Draft

9.6 m

crew

1066

drive

2 steam turbines, 16,000 hp

speed

19 knots (35 km / h)

Armament

2 × 5-inch guns
36 × 40-mm flak
20 × 20-mm flak

Planes

33

The USS Rendova (CVE-114) , later AVK-14 , was an escort carrier of Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the US Navy . She served in the US Navy from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1955. The carrier was named after the island of Rendova in the Solomon Islands archipelago .

history

The keel laying of the Rendova , which was originally to be named Mosser Bay , took place on June 25, 1944 at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Tacoma , Washington . The launch took place on December 29, 1944, the commissioning on October 22, 1945. Too late for missions in World War II , the carrier ended the test drives in January 1946, in February the carrier then took up service as part of the 1st US fleet the US west coast. Anchored at the pier in San Diego , the Rendova was the floating headquarters of Carrier Division 15 for over a year before resuming active service in the spring of 1947. In the following years, the carrier was used for training missions off the west coast and Hawaii. On April 1, 1948, the carrier ran out with a cargo AT-6 in the direction of Turkey, where it arrived on April 28 after crossing the Panama Canal and crossing the Atlantic. After unloading the aircraft, the Rendova continued her voyage through the Suez Canal, the Indian and Pacific Oceans until she arrived back in San Diego on July 1. At the end of July, the carrier ran out again for the Pacific and visited Qingdao at the end of August . After returning to the west coast, training was resumed. The Rendova then spent the first three and a half months of 1949 in the waters between Qingdao and Okinawa, after returning to San Diego and a few more practice trips off the coast, a shipyard overhaul in Bremerton followed in October . After the end of the work, the carrier was decommissioned on January 27, 1950 and assigned to the reserve fleet.

With the outbreak of the Korean War , a reinforcement of the US aircraft carrier fleet became necessary, so that the Rendova was reactivated. On January 3, 1951, the second commissioning took place, after test drives until April, the first use began on July 3. Via Yokosuka and Okinawa, she steamed to Kobe, where she replaced the Sicily on September 20 with the Carrier Task Group 95.1. After new aircraft were taken on board, the carrier qualification of the pilots began, on September 26th, the Rendova replaced the HMS Glory off the Korean coast and began the first air support missions. The carrier spent the following six months alternating with the Australian carrier HMAS Sydney off the coast of Korea and providing air support for ground troops. On December 6, 1951, the last take-offs took place on board, then the Rendova returned to San Diego, where she arrived on December 22nd. In the first months of 1952 she was again used as a training ship off the west coast, in September she then set out for the Marshall Islands , where she took part in Operation Ivy as a helicopter carrier and rescue ship. The deployment lasted two months, after which the porter returned to California. In 1953 he was assigned to the reserve for one year, but continued to work as a training provider. At the beginning of 1954 the Rendova was used as a “hunter killer” carrier for submarine hunts in the western Pacific, after which she stayed off the coast again as a training ship. In October, preparations for decommissioning began at the Mare Island Navy Yard . On February 2, 1955, the carrier was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Francisco, on June 30, it was decommissioned. In 1959 it was reclassified as an auxiliary transporter (AVK-14) and on April 1, 1971 it was deleted from the Naval Vessel Register. The carrier's hull was sold for scrapping.

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