Casablanca class carrier
The
Casablanca class of escort aircraft carriers was the largest class of this type ever built. 50 of these were laid down, launched and commissioned within the space of a year,
1943 and
1944.
They were built by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company in Vancouver, Washington on the Columbia River.
The hull numbers are consecutive, from CVE-55 (Casablanca) to CVE-104 (Munda).
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By hull number
- (CVE-55) Casablanca
- (CVE-56) Liscome Bay
- (CVE-57) Coral Sea
- (CVE-58) Corregidor
- (CVE-59) Mission Bay
- (CVE-60) Guadalcanal
- (CVE-61) Manila Bay
- (CVE-62) Natoma Bay
- (CVE-63) St. Lo
- (CVE-64) Tripoli
- (CVE-65) Wake Island
- (CVE-66) White Plains
- (CVE-67) Solomons
- (CVE-68) Kalinin Bay
- (CVE-69) Kasaan Bay
- (CVE-70) Fanshaw Bay
- (CVE-71) Kitkun Bay
- (CVE-72) Tulagi
- (CVE-73) Gambier Bay
- (CVE-74) Nehenta Bay
- (CVE-75) Hoggatt Bay
- (CVE-76) Kadasahan Bay
- (CVE-77) Marcus Island
- (CVE-78) Savo Island
- (CVE-79) Ommaney Bay
- (CVE-80) Petrof Bay
- (CVE-81) Rudyerd Bay
- (CVE-82) Saginaw Bay
- (CVE-83) Sargent Bay
- (CVE-84) Shamrock Bay
- (CVE-85) Shipley Bay
- (CVE-86) Sitkoh Bay
- (CVE-87) Steamer Bay
- (CVE-88) Cape Esperance
- (CVE-89) Takanis Bay
- (CVE-90) Thetis Bay
- (CVE-91) Makassar Strait
- (CVE-92) Windham Bay
- (CVE-93) Makin Island
- (CVE-94) Lunga Point
- (CVE-95) Bismarck Sea
- (CVE-96) Salamaua
- (CVE-97) Hollandia
- (CVE-98) Kwajalein
- (CVE-99) Admiralty Islands
- (CVE-100) Bougainville
- (CVE-101) Matanikau
- (CVE-102) Attu
- (CVE-103) Roi
- (CVE-104) Munda
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By name
- Admiralty Islands (CVE-99)
- Attu (CVE-102)
- Bismarck Sea (CVE-95)
- Bougainville (CVE-100)
- Cape Esperance (CVE-88)
- Casablanca (CVE-55)
- Coral Sea (CVE-57)
- Corregidor (CVE-58)
- Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)
- Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
- Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
- Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)
- Hollandia (CVE-97)
- Kadasahan Bay (CVE-76)
- Kalinin Bay (CVE-68)
- Kasaan Bay (CVE-69)
- Kitkun Bay (CVE-71)
- Kwajalein (CVE-98)
- Liscome Bay (CVE-56)
- Lunga Point (CVE-94)
- Makassar Strait (CVE-91)
- Makin Island (CVE-93)
- Manila Bay (CVE-61)
- Marcus Island (CVE-77)
- Matanikau (CVE-101)
- Mission Bay (CVE-59)
- Munda (CVE-104)
- Natoma Bay (CVE-62)
- Nehenta Bay (CVE-74)
- Ommaney Bay (CVE-79)
- Petrof Bay (CVE-80)
- Roi (CVE-103)
- Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81)
- Saginaw Bay (CVE-82)
- St. Lo (CVE-63)
- Salamaua (CVE-96)
- Sargent Bay (CVE-83)
- Savo Island (CVE-78)
- Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)
- Shipley Bay (CVE-85)
- Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86)
- Solomons (CVE-67)
- Steamer Bay (CVE-87)
- Takanis Bay (CVE-89)
- Thetis Bay (CVE-90)
- Tripoli (CVE-64)
- Tulagi (CVE-72)
- Wake Island (CVE-65)
- White Plains (CVE-66)
- Windham Bay (CVE-92)
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