USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99)
Ts 7800 ( Standard) 10,400 ts (insert)
156.2 m
32.9 m
6.9 m
860
4 piston steam engines, 9000 hp two propellers
19 kn
10,200 nautical miles at 15 knots
28
The USS Admiralty Islands ( CVE -99 ) was an escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy and was part of the Casablanca class. The support was from June 1944 to April 1946 in service with the U.S. Navy.
History
The escort carrier was laid on 26 February 1944 as USS Chaplin Bay, Maritime Commission hull MC1136, at the Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, on Kiel. On 26 April, the carrier in Admiralty Islands, according to the Admiralty Islands, renamed. After the christening by Mrs. Homer Norman Wallin, the carrier was launched on May 10, 1944 from the stack. He was tried on June 13 in Astoria, Oregon under the provisional command of Captain JD Earner in service, the following day the command was handed over to the ship to Captain MEA Gouin.
On July 2, the escort carrier Astoria left to the first test runs in Puget Sound, and then he ran for San Francisco, where fuel was taken on board, to San Diego, where the Admiralty Islands arrived on July 14. After further maneuvers before the Southern California coast, she was assigned to the Carrier Transport Squadron, Pacific Fleet to transport with the task of aircraft, supplies and personnel to use fleet. After a short stay in Hawaii, the carrier delivered on 9 August from his first charge in Majuro and returned from there back to Pearl Harbor. On August 24, the carrier arrived with a cargo aircraft and personnel in San Francisco, in September, followed by another transport trip to Finschhafen, New Guinea. On October 7, the Admiralty Islands sailed into San Diego and went the next day to overhaul which lasted until October 26, in the dock. On 29 October, she took in Alameda a cargo aircraft for New Guinea on board who were discharged on 21 November in Finschhafen. From there, the carrier proceeded to Manus, arriving two days later. About Pearl Harbor, where the Admiralty Islands was on 6 and 7 December, she returned on December 14, according to San Diego. There she took a cargo aircraft on board and delivered them on December 24th in Hawaii from. The next day, course was set to Guam.
The Admiralty Islands met on January 6, 1945 in Guam, where she began pilot training. On January 10, course was set in Hawaii, where from 10 to 31 January, the propulsion system of the carrier was repaired. On 2 February, the Admiralty Islands Pearl Harbor left with 61 aircraft in the direction of the fleet off Iwo Jima. After brief stops at Eniwetok and Ulithi, the carrier on February 16, Task Group 50.8, the logistics support fleet of Task Force 58 was allocated. The rest of the month February, the carrier replacement aircraft and pilots for the attack carrier. On March 2, he arrived in Guam, where fuel was bunkered and minor damage repaired on the fuselage. On March 13, the Admiralty Islands was 50.8 together with the Task Group in the direction of Okinawa, where she supported the attacks against Japanese positions on the island. On April 24, she ran back to Guam one, two boilers were defective and had to be repaired.
After completion of the work on 14 May, the Admiralty Islands ran back to Okinawa. About Guam she then ran to Saipan, where she arrived on 15 June and remained for two weeks. She was then assigned to Task Group 30.8, which supported the attacks on the Japanese home islands. On July 20th, it came on board to a fire after a landing plane crashed, a crew member was killed. The next day, the support from the U.S. 3rd Fleet was released and went to Guam, where he discharged his cargo and bunkerte fuel for the trip to the U.S. west coast. On 11 August, the Admiralty Islands sailed into San Diego, where she went to the dock to San Pedro. A large part of the proposed amendments has been deleted due to the surrender of Japan, after completion of the repairs, the carrier began on September 1, with the first trips as part of Operation Magic Carpet. These inserts, which were under the command of the Carrier Transport Squadron of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 25 September, lasted until decommissioning.
The Admiralty Islands was filed on April 24, 1946 out of service, her name was removed from the shipping registers of the Navy and sold her body to the Zidell Machinery and Supply Corporation in Portland, Oregon for scrapping on 8 May 1946.
The Admiralty Islands received three battle stars for their dedication during de Second World War.