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 ONI 222 |
| Tonnage | 7800 tons standard displacement 10,982 tons fully loaded |
| Dimensions | 512'3" by 65' by 22'4" 156.13m by 19.81m by 6.81m |
| Maximum speed | 20.8 knots |
| Complement | 764 |
| Aircraft | 474' (144.48m) flight deck 2 elevators 1 catapult 27 aircraft |
| Armament | 1 5"/38
dual-purpose gun 4x2 40mm Bofors AA guns 12x1 20mm Oerlikon AA guns |
| Machinery |
2-shaft five-cylinder Skinner
Uniflow vertical quadruple expansion
reciprocating (9000 shp) 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
| Bunkerage | 2228 tons fuel oil 120,000 gallons (454,000 liters) aviation gasoline |
| Range | 10,240 nautical miles (18,960 km) at 15 knots 7,200 nautical miles (11,600 km) at 19 knots |
| Sensors |
SC
air
search radar SG surface search radar |
| Modifications |
By 1945 most units had 8x2 40mm guns and 30
20mm
guns. Some units had their radar
upgraded to SC-2
or SK. |
The Casablancas
were completed in 1943-44 and were
designed as escort carriers from the keel up. The arrangement of
the
flight deck and island closely resembled the Bogues,
but their machinery was quite different, consisting of
triple-expansion
reciprocating engines driving two screws. Curiously, as
mass-produced
ships, they were assigned a Maritime
Commission standard type number, S4-S2-BB3. They
were much superior
to the conversions, with improved machinery dispersal and somewhat
higher
speed. Remarkably, they took only about three months to
complete, due to
the innovative use of mass production
methods in the Kaiser yards
where
they
were laid down.
The air group normally consisted of nine fighters and either eighteen torpedo bombers or nine
torpedo bombers and nine dive
bombers.
Protection was
limited to some splinter plating around control stations and the
hangar
torpedo stowage area, with
no
underwater protection whatsoever. The lack of splinter protection
around the bomb magazine was
blamed
for the
catastrophic loss of Liscombe
Bay
on 24 November 1943. Thereafter, some effort was made to provide a
liquid
protection system around the magazines by converting outboard
compartments to oil and water
storage. This came at a considerable cost
in magazine capacity.
The U.S. Navy had originally planned to transfer a
number of these ships to Britain
as Lend-Lease, but decided
to
send the Royal Navy late-construction Bogues
instead.
| Kasaan Bay | completed 1943-4-25 withdrawn 1944-1-12 returned 1944-12-25 |
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| Liscombe Bay | completed 1943-8-7 | Torpedoed
1943-11-23 off Makin by I-175 |
| Coral Sea | completed 1943-8-27 | Renamed Anzio 1944-9-15
to
free the name
for a large carrier |
| Corregidor | completed 1943-8-31 | |
| Manila Bay | completed 1943-10-5 | |
| Natoma Bay | completed 1943-10-14 | |
| Midway | completed 1943-10-23 | Renamed St.Lo 1943-9-15 to free the name for a large carrier. Sunk 25 October 1944 by kamikazes off Samar. |
| White Plains | completed 1943-11-15 | |
| Solomons | completed 1943-11-21 | |
| Kalinin Bay | completed 1943-11-27 | |
| Fanshaw Bay | completed 1943-12-9 | |
| Kitkun Bay | completed 1943-12-15 | |
| Tulagi | completed 1943-12-21 | |
| Gambier Bay | completed 1943-12-28 | Sunk 25 October 1944 by gunfire off Samar |
| Nehenta Bay | completed 1944-1-3 | |
| Hoggatt Bay | completed 1944-1-11 | |
| Kadashan Bay | completed 1944-1-18 | |
| Marcus Island | completed 1944-1-26 | |
| Savo Island | completed 1944-2-3 | |
| Ommaney Bay | completed 1944-2-11 | Crippled by kamikazes
on 4 January 1945 and scuttled |
| Petroff Bay | completed 1944-2-18 | |
| Rudyerd Bay | completed 1944-2-25 | |
| Saginaw Bay | completed 1944-3-2 | |
| Sargent Bay | completed 1944-3-9 | |
| Shipley Bay | completed 1944-3-21 | |
| Sitkoh Bay | completed 1944-3-28 | |
| Steamer Bay | completed 1944-4-4 | |
| Cape Esperance | completed 1944-4-9 | |
| Takanis
Bay |
completed 1944-4-15 | |
| Thetis Bay | completed 1944-4-21 | |
| Makassar Strait | completed 1944-4-27 | |
| Makin Island | completed 1944-5-9 | |
| Windham Bay | completed 1944-5-3 | |
| Lunga Point | completed 1944-5-14 | |
| Bismarck Sea | completed 1944-5-20 | Sunk by kamikaze 1945-2-21 off Iwo Jima |
| Salamaua | completed 1944-5-26 | |
| Hollandia | completed 1944-6-1 | |
| Kwajalein |
completed 1944-6-7 |
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| Admiralty Islands | completed 1944-6-13 | |
| Bougainville | completed 1944-6-18 | |
| Matanikau | completed 1944-6-24 | |
| Attu | completed 1944-6-30 | |
| Roi | completed 1944-7-6 | |
| Munda | completed 1944-7-8 | |
| Casablanca | completed 1944-8-16 | |
| Shamrock Bay | arrived 1944-11-18 | |
| Wake Island | arrived 1944-11-20 | |
| Tripoli | arrived 1945-1-1 |
All units completed at Vancouver, Oregon.
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References
Gogin (2010; accessed 2013-1-31)
ibibilio.org
(accessed 2014-8-31)
Navsource.Org (accessed 2007-5-14)
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