Aircraft carrier class
Commencement Bay-class escort carrier
The class in numbers
- 35 Planned
- 19 Completed
- 16 Cancelled
- 19 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Built
- 1943–1945
- Preceded by
- Casablanca-class escort carrier
- Succeeded by
- None
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Washington
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 10,900 long tons (11,075 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 24,100 long tons (24,487 t)
- Length
- 169.77 m (557 ft) OA
- Speed
- 19 knots (35.2 km/h, 21.9 mph)
- Complement
- 1,066
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 5 in guns (1 × 2)
- 36 × 40 mm Bofors gun (3 × 4, 12 × 2)
- 20 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
Sources
- Facts harvested from Commencement Bay-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.