USS Sangamon
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Esso Trenton |
Owner | Standard Oil Company |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
Laid down | 13 March 1939 |
Launched | 4 November 1939 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Clara Esselborn |
Fate | Purchased by the US Navy |
U.S. Navy | |
Name | USS Sangamon |
Namesake | Sangamon River in Illinois |
Acquired | 22 October 1940 |
Commissioned | 23 October 1940, as (AO-28) fleet oiler |
Decommissioned | 25 February 1942 |
Reclassified | AVG-26, 14 February 1942 |
Refit | Converted to escort carrier |
Recommissioned | 25 August 1942 |
Decommissioned | 24 October 1945 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 1 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold, 11 February 1948, Scrapped in Osaka, Japan, August 1960 |
General characteristics as escort carrier | |
Class and type | Sangamon-class escort carrier |
Displacement | 11,400 long tons (11,583 t) standard, 24,275 long tons (24,665 t) full |
Length | 553 ft (169 m) |
Beam | 114 ft 3 in (34.82 m) |
Draft | 32 ft 4 in (9.86 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 830 officers and men |
Sensors and processing systems | SG Radar[1] |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 25 |
Aviation facilities | 2 × elevators |
Service record | |
Operations: | World War II |
Awards: | 8 battle stars. Her three air groups were each awarded the Presidential Unit Citation |
USS Sangamon (CVE-26) was a US Navy escort carrier of World War II.
Originally Esso Trenton, a T3 tanker oiler, built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, it was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on runs from gulf coast ports to the east coast. After entering service in the early part of the war in the Navy as a tanker, Sangamon was converted into an aircraft carrier.
After conversion Sangamon was at the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1943 before moving to the war in the Pacific. Post war it was sold into civilian ownership and scrapped in 1960.