USS Bogue
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USS Bogue (AVG/ACV/CVE/CVHE-9) was the lead ship in the Bogue class of escort carriers in the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for Bogue Sound in North Carolina.
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USS Bogue (CVE-9), near Norfolk, Virginia on 20 June 1943 | |
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United States | |
Name | Steel Advocate |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Isthmian Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (C3-S-A1 hull), MC hull 170 [1] |
Awarded | 30 September 1940 |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Tacoma, Washington |
Cost | $3,733,124 |
Yard number | 9 |
Way number | 1 |
Laid down | 1 October 1941 |
Launched | 15 January 1942 |
Fate | Allocated to the United States Navy, 1 May 1942 |
United States | |
Name | Bogue |
Namesake | Bogue Sound, North Carolina |
Acquired | 1 May 1942 |
Commissioned | 26 September 1942 |
Decommissioned | 30 November 1946 |
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Stricken | 1 March 1959 |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1960 |
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Class and type | Bogue-class escort carrier |
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Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 890 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 19-24 |
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Originally classified AVG-9, this was changed to ACV-9 on 20 August 1942; CVE-9 on 15 July 1943 and CVHE-9, on 12 June 1955. She was part of an effective force, where aircraft operating from Bogue or ships escorting the carrier claimed ten German and two Japanese submarines between May 1943 and July 1945.