USS Card (CVE-11), in 1943
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United States | |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Isthmian Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (C3-S-A1 hull), MC hull 178 [1] |
Awarded | 30 October 1940 |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Tacoma, Washington |
Cost | $3,286,653 |
Yard number | 10 |
Way number | 2 |
Laid down | 27 October 1941 |
Launched | 21 February 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. J. Perry |
Fate | Sold for scrapping on 14 May 1971 |
United States | |
Name | Card |
Namesake | Card Sound, Florida |
Acquired | 1 May 1942 |
Commissioned | 8 November 1942 |
Decommissioned | 13 May 1946 |
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Fate | Allocated to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), 1958 |
United States | |
Name | Card |
Operator | MSTS |
Acquired | 1958 |
In service | 16 May 1958 |
Out of service | 10 March 1970 |
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Stricken | 15 September 1970 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping, 14 May 1971 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Bogue-class escort carrier |
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Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 890 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 19-24 |
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USS Card (AVG/ ACV/ CVE/ CVHE/ CVU/T-CVU-11/ T-AKV-40) was an American Bogue-class escort carrier that saw service in World War II. She was named for Card Sound, a continuation of Biscayne Bay, south of Miami, Florida. She was the flagship of Task Group 21.14 (TG 21.14), a hunter-killer group formed to destroy German submarines in the North Atlantic.
In 1964, while operating as an aircraft ferry, Card was sunk with explosives planted by two Viet Cong commandos in the Harbor of Saigon, South Vietnam. She was refloated 17 days later and returned to service after extensive repairs.