USS Card

USS Card (CVE-11), in 1943
History
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
Reclassified	ACV, 20 August 1942 CVE, 15 July 1943 CVHE, 12 June 1955
Identification	Hull symbol: AVG-11 ACV-11 CVE-11 CVHE-11 Code letters: NUZR [2]
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
Reclassified	CVU, 1 July 1958 AKV, 7 May 1959
Stricken	15 September 1970
Identification	Hull symbol: T-CVU-11 Hull symbol: T-AKV-40
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 14 May 1971
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Bogue-class escort carrier
Displacement	8,390 long tons (8,520 t) (standard) 13,980 long tons (14,200 t) (full load)
Length	465 ft (142 m) (wl) 495 ft 8 in (151.08 m) (oa) 440 ft (130 m) (fd)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) wl 82 ft (25 m) (fd) 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m) (extreme width)
Draft	23 ft 3 in (7.09 m) (mean) 26 ft (7.9 m) (max)
Installed power	2 × Foster-Wheeler 285 psi (1,970 kPa) boilers 8,500 shp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Allis-Chalmers steam turbine 1 × Screw
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	890 officers and enlisted
Armament	As designed: 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 caliber 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons Varied, ultimate armament: 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal dual-purpose gun (DP) 8 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 20 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried	19-24
Aviation facilities	1 × hydraulic catapult 2 × elevators
Service record
Operations:	World War II Vietnam War
Awards:	Presidential Unit Citation 3 × battle stars (WWII)

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.