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USS Thetis Bay
Casablanca-class escort carrier of the U.S. Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) was the thirty-sixth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was launched in March 1944, commissioned in April, and served as a transport carrier in the Pacific, as well as a replenishment carrier supporting the Allied bombardment of Tokyo and the Main Islands. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, before being decommissioned in August 1946, being mothballed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She was reactivated in July 1956, and converted to a helicopter transport carrier, serving in relief operations in Taiwan and Haiti. Ultimately, she was broken up in 1966, the last Casablanca-class hull to be scrapped.
![]() USS Thetis Bay underway on 7 August 1944. The ship is painted in Measure 33, Design 10A camouflage.[1] | |
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Name | Thetis Bay |
Namesake | Thetis Bay, Kuiu Island, Alaska |
Ordered | as a Type S4-S2-BB3 hull, MC hull 1127[2] |
Awarded | 18 June 1942 |
Builder | Kaiser Shipyards |
Laid down | 22 December 1943 |
Launched | 16 March 1944 |
Commissioned | 12 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 7 August 1946 |
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Recommissioned | 20 July 1956 |
Decommissioned | 1 March 1964 |
Reclassified | 1 July 1955 |
Stricken | 1 March 1964 |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star |
Fate | Scrapped in 1966 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Casablanca-class escort carrier |
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Draft | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) (max) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Range | 10,240 nmi (18,960 km; 11,780 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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Aircraft carried | 27 |
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Operations: | Operation Magic Carpet |