USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56)

History of USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56)

USS Licome Bay (ACV/CVE-56) was the second of 50 Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the U.S. Navy during World War II . Launched in April 1943 and commissioned the following August, it was named after Lisconn Bay on Dal Island in the Alexandria Islands, Alaska. On November 24, 1943, her ammunition was detonated by a torpedo attack from the Japanese submarine I-175, while she was supporting operations at Makin as the flagship of the 24th Carrier Division. She sank quickly with the loss of 644 men. Her loss was the deadliest sinking of an aircraft carrier in U.S.

Navy history.

On August 7, 1943, the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Liscombe Bay (CVE-56) in service in Vancouver, Washington. Originally classified as an ACV, it was reclassified as a CVE on July 15. After serving in the Pacific, she left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in November to join Task Force 52, Task Force Northern, in Operation Current. In the early hours of November 24, the Japanese submarine I-175 sank in Liscome Bay, southeast of Makin Island, Gilbert Islands, killing 55 officers and 591 soldiers, including the commander of Task Force 52, Rear Admiral Henry M. Henry M. Mullinix.

3. And Cook 3rd Class Doris Miller, who received the Navy Cross for her actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Her crew of 272 were rescued. On February 4, 1944, USS Charrette (DD-581) and USS Fair (DE-35) sank I-175 during the Kwajalein invasion.

Specification

Base

Year of Service

1943

Origins

United States

supplement

916

staff

Class information

Class

Casablanca class

Class Size

50

ships

Class

Casablanca (CVE-55); Liscombe Bay (CVE-56); Anzio (CVE-57); Corregidor (CVE-58); Mission Bay (CVE-59); Gwadar Canal Island (CVE-60); Manila Bay (CVE-61); Natoma Bay (CVE-62); San Lo (CVE-63); Tripoli (CVE-64); Wake Island (CVE-65) ); White Plains (CVE-66); Solomon Islands (CVE-67); Kalinin Bay (CVE-68); Kazan Bay (CVE-69); Fanshawe Bay (CVE-70); (CVE-71); Tulagi (CVE-72); Gambier Bay (CVE-73); Nehenta Bay (CVE-74); Hoggart Bay (CVE-75); -76); Marcus Island (CVE-77); Savo Island (CVE-78); Omani Bay (CVE-79); Petrove Bay (CVE-80); Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) ; Saginaw Bay (CVE-82); Sargent Bay (CVE-83); Clover Bay (CVE-84); Shipley Bay (CVE-85); Sitco Bay (CVE-86); Steamboat Bay of Esperance (CVE-88); Tarcanis Bay (CVE-89); Thetis Bay (CVE-90); Makassar Road (CVE-91); Wind Makin Island (CVE-93); Longa Point (CVE-94); Bismarck Sea (CVE-95); Salamau (CVE-96); Hollandia (CVE-97) ; Kwajalein (CVE-98); Admiralty (CVE-99); Bougainvillea (CVE-100); Matanikaau (CVE-101); Attu (CVE-102); -103); Munda (CVE-104)

Operators

United States

Roles

Flagships/Capital Ships

Taking on the role of fleet flagship or capital ship in old battleship design/terminology.

Dimensions and Weight

Length

512. 3 feet

156.15m

Ray

65.2 feet

19.87m

Draft

22.5 feet

6.86m

Shift

7,800 t

Power and Performance

Installed Power:

4 x boilers producing 285 psi; 2 9,000 shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines; 2 x cardan shafts.

Surface Velocity

20.0 nodes

(23. 0 km/h)

Area

10,239nm

(11,783 miles | 18,963 kilometers)

Weapon

1 x 5" (127 mm)/38 caliber dual-purpose (DP) gun. 16 x 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, 8 twin (8x2). 20 x individually mounted 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun.

Planes

28 different types of planes.