USS Siboney (CVE-112)
Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the US Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Siboney.
USS Siboney (CVE-112/AKV-12) (ex-Frosty Bay) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was the second ship named for Siboney, Cuba, the Cuban Village near which troops of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders fought during the Spanish–American War.
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USS Siboney (CVE-112) | |
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United States | |
Builder | Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Tacoma, Washington |
Laid down | as Frosty Bay, 1 April 1944 |
Renamed | Siboney, 26 April 1944 |
Namesake | Siboney, Cuba |
Launched | 9 November 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Charles F. Greber |
Commissioned | 14 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 6 December 1949 |
Recommissioned | 22 November 1950 |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1956 |
Reclassified | AKV-12, on 7 May 1959 |
Stricken | 1 June 1970 |
Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
Motto | Nulli Secunda |
Fate | Scrapped 1971 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Commencement Bay-class escort carrier |
Displacement | 21,397 long tons (21,740 t) |
Length | 557 ft 1 in (169.80 m) loa |
Beam | 75 ft (23 m) |
Draft | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement | 1,066 |
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Aircraft carried | 33 |
Aviation facilities | 2 × aircraft catapults |
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