USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
US Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier in service 1943-1946 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Guadalcanal.
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, which served during and after World War II. She was the first ship to carry her name. She was the flagship of Task Group 22.3, a hunter-killer group which captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.
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Name | USS Guadalcanal |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Kaiser Shipyards |
Laid down | 5 January 1943 |
Launched | 5 June 1943 |
Commissioned | 25 September 1943 |
Decommissioned | 15 July 1946 |
Stricken | 27 May 1958 |
Motto | Can do |
Fate | Sold for scrap on 30 April 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Casablanca-class escort carrier |
Displacement | 7,800 tons |
Length | 512 ft (156 m) overall |
Beam | 65 ft (20 m) |
Draft | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
Range | 10,240 nmi (18,960 km) @ 15 kn (28 km/h) |
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Armament | 1 × 5 in/38 cal dual purpose gun, 16 × Bofors 40 mm guns (8×2), 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (20×1) |
Aircraft carried | 27 |
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Commanders: | Daniel V. Gallery |
Operations: | Battle of the Atlantic |
Victories: | U-544, U-515, U-68, U-505 (1944) |
Awards: | Presidential Unit Citation, 3 Battle stars |
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