&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Nassau_(ACV-16)_underway_off_Attu_in_May_1943.jpg) USS Nassau underway off Attu in May 1943
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Nassau |
| Namesake | Nassau Sound in Florida |
| Laid down | 27 November 1941 |
| Launched | 4 April 1942 |
| Commissioned | 20 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 28 October 1946 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1961 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bogue-class escort carrier |
| Displacement | 9,600 tons |
| Length | 495.75 ft (151.10 m) |
| Beam | 69.5 ft (21.2 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots |
| Complement | 890 officers and men |
| Armament | 2 × 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 guns, 8 twin × 40 mm Bofors, 27 single × 20 mm guns Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried | 24 |
USS Nassau (CVE-16) (originally AVG-16 then ACV-16) was laid down 27 November 1941 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington, as M.C. Hull No. 234; launched 4 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. G. H. Hasselman, Tongue Point, Oregon; acquired by the Navy 1 May, towed to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, and converted to an escort carrier; and commissioned 20 August, Captain Austin K. Doyle in command.
Nassau was one of thirty-seven Tacoma-built C3 CVEs, of which twenty-six went to the Royal Navy. It was one of the ten Bogue-class escort carriers that served in the U.S. Navy.