USS Msssion Bay seen in the Atlantic with Hellcats on the deck. Photo. www.navsource.org By Robert Hurst.
Mission Bay is seen entering New York harbor. In the same day after a collision with a dredge she proceeded to Portsmouth for repairs. Photo. www.navsource.org By robert M. Cieri.
USS Mission Bay is seen docked at Bahia along with CVE Wake Island in return trip from Karachi Pakistan where they delivered a load of Aircrafts and personnel. Photo. www.navsource.org By David Buell
Displacement: 10,000 tons
Length: 512'3"
Beam: 108'
Draft: 22'4"
Speed: 19 knots
Armament: 1 5"/38 DP, 8x2 40mm,
Aircrafts: 12 TBM, 16 FM-2
Complement: 860
Reciprocating engines, twin screws, 9,000 shaft hp
Built at Kaiser S.B. Co., Vancouver and commissioned 15 September 1943
Originally scheduled to be built as AVG-59, Mission Bay (CVE-59) was redesignated ACV-59 on 20 August 1942 and laid down by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., 28 December 1942, launched 26 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James McDonald, redesignated CVE-59 on 15 July 1943; acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission 13 September 1943; and commissioned at Astoria, Oreg., the same day, Capt. William L. Rees in command.
After shakedown off
On 20 February, Mission Bay steamed from New York with a load of Army planes and personnel for India, stopping at Recife, Brazil; and Capetown, Union of South Africa (now Republic of South Africa), before arriving at Karachi 29 March. By 12 May she was back at
On the 28th, the carrier departed
On 8 September,
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