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USS TRIPOLI   (CVE-64)
(later CVU-64)

(Ex-DIDRICKSON BAY)
USS Tripoli (CVE-64)
Contributed and digitally enhanced by Wolfgang Hechler

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Victor - Tango
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-64 Tripoli
NS0306402		 69k USS Tripoli departs Hampton Roads, May 24, 1944 with Composite Squadron 6 (VC-6; 12 Avengers and 9 Wildcats) aboard. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 4A (although there are deviations from the original Bureau of Ships design drawing). Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-64 Tripoli
NS0306406		 57k

USS Tripoli (CVE-64) anchored at an unknown location circa 1944.

US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1986.150.003.052.

 Mike Green
The 1950s
CVE-64 Tripoli
NS0306404		 53k

USS Tripoli (CVE-64) underway circa 1953, location unknown.

 Robert Hurst
CVE-64 Tripoli
NS0306401		 67k

Tripoli, operated by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and with a deck load of USAF North American F-86D Sabre fighters, circa 1954.

Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl M. Brashear, USN, served aboard Tripoli, November 1951–March 1955. MCBM Brashear (1931–2006) was a pioneer in the Navy as the first black deep-sea diver, the first black Master Diver and the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty as an amputee, the result of a leg injury he sustained during a salvage operation in January 1966, off the coast of Spain. His life story was immortalized on the big screen in the movie "Men of Honor" (2000).

 USN
CVE-64 Tripoli
NS0306403		 41k As an aircraft transport. Ted Stone photo. Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-64 Tripoli
NS0306405		 98k

USS Tripoli (CVE/CVU-64) underway, probably during the middle 1950s, while transporting Republic F-84 Thunderjet fighters. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was taken several years earlier.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command (# NH 106568).

 Naval History & Heritage Command, via Robert Hurst

For more information and photos of this ship, see:
USS TRIPOLI CVE-64 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)
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Nederland, TX, 77627-5731
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Hazegray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Pages By Andrew Toppan.
Official U.S. Navy Carrier Website
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