USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)

1943 WORLD WAR 2

• 1 History of the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
• 2 USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) Specification
  • 2.1 Basic
  • 2.2 Class information
  • 2.3 Operators
  • 2.4 Roles
  • 2.5 Dimensions and Weight
  • 2.6 Power and Performance
  • 2.7 Weapons
  • 2.8 Aircraft

History of the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)

The USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was approved by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Inc. in Vancouver, WA from the Maritime Commission Hull MC-1097 rebuild as a Aircraft Escort (AVG-60); reclassified as Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier (ACV-60) on 20 August 1942; enacted on 5 January 1943; named Star Panwan (ACV-60) on 22 January 1943 ; and was renamed Guadalcanal (ACV-60) on April 3, 1943. Guadalcanal launched on June 5, 1943; sponsored by Mrs.

Carol M. Malstrom, wife of Captain Alvin I. Malstrom; reclassified as an escort aircraft carrier (CVE-60) on July 15, 1943; 1943 Assigned to the Luftwaffe Atlantic Fleet on July 29; and commissioned at Naval Air Station Astoria (NAS), Cape Horn, Oregon on September 25, 1943, under the command of Captain Daniel V. Gallery Jr.

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) completed outfitting and a series of maneuvers and loading arrangements on 15 October 1943, and reported to Pacific Fleet for provisional service five days later. USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was passing through the Panama Canal on November 26 and was damaged while entering the locks when one of her 40mm gun pods contaminated her. So she stopped briefly in Cologne to repair the artillery and the surrounding hull.

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) breaks with USS Alden (DD-211), USS John D. Edwards (DD-216), USS John D. Ford (DD-228) and USS Whipple (DD-217). ) USS Norfolk in search of an enemy submarine on January 5, 1944, in the North Atlantic along the escort route from the United States to Gibraltar.

9 FM-2s and 6 TBM-3s and TBM-3Ds from VC-19 were suspended from USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), which she set sail with TG 22.7 on 1 December 1944, Training in waters off Bermuda. Exercises include refresher landings for new squadron pilots, shooting practice and anti-submarine exercises using R-9 (SS-86) submarines. USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) moored at Royal Bay, Bermuda on December 11, 1944 and arrived at NAAS Mayport, Florida on December 15 accompanied by USS Chatelain, USS 90 and USS Pillsbury.

The arrival of the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) marks the first time an aircraft carrier has used the Mayport Basin.

After a short training cruise in the Caribbean, USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) arrived in Mayport for duty as a carrier qualification ship (15 March-22 August 1945). During this time, a second lieutenant at the Naval Academy took her on a familiarization trip, and after qualifying for 1,467 pilots, USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) sailed to Lynn Haven Road, Virginia (August 26-28). ). USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) next completed a major overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (29 August to 10 October) and was assigned to the Atlantic Inactive Fleet on September 4.

On February 9, 1946, USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) reported to Sixteenth Fleet and was decommissioned and ready. The ship recorded its final flight maneuver at 10.17am that day, when it took off five Vought F4U Corsairs to NAS Norfolk, after the airline's last 11 pilots qualified on 64 landings.

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was decommissioned on July 15, 1946 at 10:15 am and assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Norfolk Group. The airline switched to the New York Group on November 30, 1949.

On June 12, 1955, she was reclassified as a general purpose aircraft carrier (CVU-60) while still remaining in New York. USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was hit from the Naval Register on May 27, 1958.

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) Specification

Basic

Year of Service

1943

Origins

United States

Status

stop service

destroyed, scrapped.

supplement

910

staff

Class information

Class

Casablanca class

Class Size

50

ships

Class

Casablanca (CVE-55); Liscombe Bay (CVE-56); Anzio (CVE-57); Corregidor (CVE-58); Mission Bay (CVE-59); Gwadar Canal Island (CVE-60); Manila Bay (CVE-61); Natoma Bay (CVE-62); San Lo (CVE-63); Tripoli (CVE-64); Wake Island (CVE-65) ); White Plains (CVE-66); Solomon Islands (CVE-67); Kalinin Bay (CVE-68); Kazan Bay (CVE-69); Fanshawe Bay (CVE-70); (CVE-71); Tulagi (CVE-72); Gambier Bay (CVE-73); Nehenta Bay (CVE-74); Hoggart Bay (CVE-75); -76); Marcus Island (CVE-77); Savo Island (CVE-78); Omani Bay (CVE-79); Petrove Bay (CVE-80); Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) ; Saginaw Bay (CVE-82); Sargent Bay (CVE-83); Clover Bay (CVE-84); Shipley Bay (CVE-85); Sitco Bay (CVE-86); Steamboat Bay of Esperance (CVE-88); Tarcanis Bay (CVE-89); Thetis Bay (CVE-90); Makassar Road (CVE-91); Wind Makin Island (CVE-93); Longa Point (CVE-94); Bismarck Sea (CVE-95); Salamau (CVE-96); Hollandia (CVE-97) ; Kwajalein (CVE-98); Admiralty (CVE-99); Bougainvillea (CVE-100); Matanikaau (CVE-101); Attu (CVE-102); -103); Munda (CVE-104)

Operators

United States

Roles

Flagships/Capital Ships

Taking on the role of fleet flagship or capital ship in old battleship design/terminology.

Dimensions and Weight

Length

512. 0 feet

156.06m

Ray

65.0 feet

19.81m

Draft

22.5 feet

6.86m

Shift

7,800

t

Power and Performance

Installed Power:

4 x boilers and 2 x Skinner Unaflow 5 cylinder reciprocating engines producing 9,000hp on 2 x axles.

Surface Velocity

19. 0 nodes

(21.9 km/h)

Area

10,241nm

(11,785 miles | 18,966 kilometers)

kts = nodes | mph = miles per hour | nm = nautical miles | mi = miles | km = miles 1 kts = 1.15mph | 1 nautical mile = 1.15 kilometers | 1 nautical mile = 1.85 kilometers

Weapons

1 x 5" /38 cal dual-purpose gun 16 x 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun 20 x 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun

Aircraft

27 x aircraft of various types - fighters, torpedo bombers and dive bombers.