USS TRIPOLI CVE64
USS TRIPOLI CVE64
Class……………………………Casablanca class Escort Carrier
Builder……………………….. Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash.
Yard number……………….310
Laid down..………………….1 Feb 1943
Launched….…………………2 Sept 1943
Completed.………………….31 Oct 1943
Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts : 2 Skinner Uniflow VQuiE, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed..…………………………19 knots
Range…………………………..10200 nm at 15 knots
Fate
•22 May 1946: Decommissioned and laid up, in reserve.
•5 Jan 1952: Recommissioned as an aircraft transport and ferry.
•Over the next six years, TRIPOLI conducted 44 transport voyages, mostly to European and Mediterranean ports but with one visit to Hawaii and two to the Far East.
•25 Nov 1958: Decommissioned at New Orleans.
•1 Feb 1959: Stuck from the Navy Register.
•1960: Scrapped by a Japanese firm
DESIGN GENESIS
In the early summer of 1942 the owner of shipyard in Vancouver (WA) G. Kaiser suggested to the American government suitable to manage mass building of escort carriers. To that time Kaiser already developed mass building of merchant vessels, and now technology of continuous assembling was planned to spread to warships. President Roosevelt has become interested in the project, and Kaiser received an offer on 50 aircraft carriers at once. The Casablanca class in many respects were similar Bogue class but had smaller displacement, two shafts and was faster. As a design basis the fast dry cargo carrier of S4-S2ВВ-3 type was used, but, unlike the predecessors, new carriers were built quite new, instead of earlier carriers converted from merchant hulls. Term of building of the first 10 ships was 241-287 days, last ships of the class were built in 101-112 days. Machinery included two original 'Uniflow' five-cylinder steam engines, quite often called by turbines. (Navpedia)
Undated photo of the carrier taken in the period 1952-58 from aircraft on the deck
USS TRIPOLI CVE64
USS TRIPOLI CVE64
Class……………………………Casablanca class Escort Carrier
Builder……………………….. Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash.
Yard number……………….310
Laid down..………………….1 Feb 1943
Launched….…………………2 Sept 1943
Completed.………………….31 Oct 1943
Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts : 2 Skinner Uniflow VQuiE, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Speed..…………………………19 knots
Range…………………………..10200 nm at 15 knots
Fate
•22 May 1946: Decommissioned and laid up, in reserve.
•5 Jan 1952: Recommissioned as an aircraft transport and ferry.
•Over the next six years, TRIPOLI conducted 44 transport voyages, mostly to European and Mediterranean ports but with one visit to Hawaii and two to the Far East.
•25 Nov 1958: Decommissioned at New Orleans.
•1 Feb 1959: Stuck from the Navy Register.
•1960: Scrapped by a Japanese firm
DESIGN GENESIS
In the early summer of 1942 the owner of shipyard in Vancouver (WA) G. Kaiser suggested to the American government suitable to manage mass building of escort carriers. To that time Kaiser already developed mass building of merchant vessels, and now technology of continuous assembling was planned to spread to warships. President Roosevelt has become interested in the project, and Kaiser received an offer on 50 aircraft carriers at once. The Casablanca class in many respects were similar Bogue class but had smaller displacement, two shafts and was faster. As a design basis the fast dry cargo carrier of S4-S2ВВ-3 type was used, but, unlike the predecessors, new carriers were built quite new, instead of earlier carriers converted from merchant hulls. Term of building of the first 10 ships was 241-287 days, last ships of the class were built in 101-112 days. Machinery included two original 'Uniflow' five-cylinder steam engines, quite often called by turbines. (Navpedia)
Undated photo of the carrier taken in the period 1952-58 from aircraft on the deck