USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)

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History
United States
Name	USS Guadalcanal
Ordered	1942
Builder	Kaiser Shipyards
Laid down	5 January 1943
Launched	5 June 1943
Commissioned	25 September 1943
Decommissioned	15 July 1946
Stricken	27 May 1958
Motto	Can do
Fate	Sold for scrap on 30 April 1959
General characteristics
Class and type	Casablanca-class escort carrier
Displacement	7,800 tons
Length	512 ft (156 m) overall
Beam	65 ft (20 m)
Draft	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion	2 × 5-cylinder reciprocating Skinner unaflow engines 4 × 285 psi boilers 2 shafts 9,000 shp
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h)
Range	10,240 nmi (18,960 km) @ 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	910-916 officers and men Embarked Squadron: 50-56 officers and men Ship's Crew: 860 officers and men.
Armament	1 × 5 in/38 cal dual purpose gun, 16 × Bofors 40 mm guns (8×2), 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (20×1)
Aircraft carried	27
Service record
Part of:	Task Group 21.12 (1943-44) Task Group 22.3 (1944-45) Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946-58)
Commanders:	Daniel V. Gallery
Operations:	Battle of the Atlantic
Victories:	U-544, U-515, U-68, U-505 (1944)
Awards:	Presidential Unit Citation, 3 Battle stars

USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, which served during and after World War II. She was the first ship to carry her name. She was the flagship of Task Group 22.3, a hunter-killer group which captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.