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USS MISSION BAY   (CVE-59)
(later CVU-59)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - X-ray - Uniform - Delta
CLASS - CASABLANCA
Displacement 7,800 Tons, Dimensions, 512' 3" (oa) x 65' 2" x 22' 4" (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/38AA 8 x 40mm, 12 x 20mm, 27 Aircraft.
Machinery, 9,000 IHP; 2 Skinner, Uniflow engines, 2 screws
Speed, 19 Knots, Crew 860.
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World War II
CVE-59 Mission Bay
NS0305901		 47k USS Mission Bay operated primarily as an ASW carrier in the Atlantic. She is shown in August 1944, off the East Coast, wearing Measure 32 Design 4A camouflage. Note Hellcats on deck and the large SK air search radar antenna on the mast. Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-59 Mission Bay
NS0305903		 17k US Naval Base Argentia, Newfoundland, sometime in 1944-1945. Wayne Young
CVE-59 Mission Bay
NS0305904		 185k

USS Mission Bay (CVE-59) underway, location and date unknown (probably 1945.) Note the lighter color island, compared to the Measure 21 hull up to the flight deck. Several CVE's wore this modified scheme in 1945.

US Navy photo, via US Naval Institute.

 David Buell
Ex-USS Mission Bay
CVE-59 Mission Bay
NS0306010		 341k

"Ex-Navy Carriers [Guadalcanal and Mission Bay] May Go To Japan for Breaking Up."

 Ron Reeves
CVE-59 Mission Bay
NS0305902		 220k

Stripped and powerless, the veteran WWII escort carriers Guadalcanal and Mission Bay take a last voyage to a Japanese scrapyard under the charge of the Dutch tug Elbe.

 EMC(SW) Brian Kroenung
USS MISSION BAY CVE-59 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Mr. Wallace M Cooper
Address:None Listed
Phone: 650-726-3422
E-mail: None
Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Official U.S. Navy Carrier Website
Escort Carrier Sailors & Airmen Association
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