The
Casablanca class of escort aircraft carriers was the largest class of this type ever built. 50 of these were laid down, launched and commissioned within the space of a year,
1943 and
1944.
They were built by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company in Vancouver, Washington on the Columbia River.
The hull numbers are consecutive, from CVE-55 (Casablanca) to CVE-104 (Munda).
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By hull number
- (CVE-55) Casablanca
- (CVE-56) Liscome Bay
- (CVE-57) Coral Sea
- (CVE-58) Corregidor
- (CVE-59) Mission Bay
- (CVE-60) Guadalcanal
- (CVE-61) Manila Bay
- (CVE-62) Natoma Bay
- (CVE-63) St. Lo
- (CVE-64) Tripoli
- (CVE-65) Wake Island
- (CVE-66) White Plains
- (CVE-67) Solomons
- (CVE-68) Kalinin Bay
- (CVE-69) Kasaan Bay
- (CVE-70) Fanshaw Bay
- (CVE-71) Kitkun Bay
- (CVE-72) Tulagi
- (CVE-73) Gambier Bay
- (CVE-74) Nehenta Bay
- (CVE-75) Hoggatt Bay
- (CVE-76) Kadasahan Bay
- (CVE-77) Marcus Island
- (CVE-78) Savo Island
- (CVE-79) Ommaney Bay
- (CVE-80) Petrof Bay
- (CVE-81) Rudyerd Bay
- (CVE-82) Saginaw Bay
- (CVE-83) Sargent Bay
- (CVE-84) Shamrock Bay
- (CVE-85) Shipley Bay
- (CVE-86) Sitkoh Bay
- (CVE-87) Steamer Bay
- (CVE-88) Cape Esperance
- (CVE-89) Takanis Bay
- (CVE-90) Thetis Bay
- (CVE-91) Makassar Strait
- (CVE-92) Windham Bay
- (CVE-93) Makin Island
- (CVE-94) Lunga Point
- (CVE-95) Bismarck Sea
- (CVE-96) Salamaua
- (CVE-97) Hollandia
- (CVE-98) Kwajalein
- (CVE-99) Admiralty Islands
- (CVE-100) Bougainville
- (CVE-101) Matanikau
- (CVE-102) Attu
- (CVE-103) Roi
- (CVE-104) Munda
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By name
- Admiralty Islands (CVE-99)
- Attu (CVE-102)
- Bismarck Sea (CVE-95)
- Bougainville (CVE-100)
- Cape Esperance (CVE-88)
- Casablanca (CVE-55)
- Coral Sea (CVE-57)
- Corregidor (CVE-58)
- Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70)
- Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
- Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
- Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75)
- Hollandia (CVE-97)
- Kadasahan Bay (CVE-76)
- Kalinin Bay (CVE-68)
- Kasaan Bay (CVE-69)
- Kitkun Bay (CVE-71)
- Kwajalein (CVE-98)
- Liscome Bay (CVE-56)
- Lunga Point (CVE-94)
- Makassar Strait (CVE-91)
- Makin Island (CVE-93)
- Manila Bay (CVE-61)
- Marcus Island (CVE-77)
- Matanikau (CVE-101)
- Mission Bay (CVE-59)
- Munda (CVE-104)
- Natoma Bay (CVE-62)
- Nehenta Bay (CVE-74)
- Ommaney Bay (CVE-79)
- Petrof Bay (CVE-80)
- Roi (CVE-103)
- Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81)
- Saginaw Bay (CVE-82)
- St. Lo (CVE-63)
- Salamaua (CVE-96)
- Sargent Bay (CVE-83)
- Savo Island (CVE-78)
- Shamrock Bay (CVE-84)
- Shipley Bay (CVE-85)
- Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86)
- Solomons (CVE-67)
- Steamer Bay (CVE-87)
- Takanis Bay (CVE-89)
- Thetis Bay (CVE-90)
- Tripoli (CVE-64)
- Tulagi (CVE-72)
- Wake Island (CVE-65)
- White Plains (CVE-66)
- Windham Bay (CVE-92)
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