Savo Island was sponsored by Miss Margaret Taffinder, daughter of Rear Admiral Taffinder, Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District.

(From "Bo's'n's Whistle," Vol. 4, No. 2; January 28, 1944; pages 4 & 5.)

Undated, underway with a deck load of aircraft. Camouflaged in Measure 33, Design 14A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.)

USS Savo Island (CVE-78) underway in May 1944, location unknown. Note dismantled SO3C Seamew, a J2F Duck (minus its engine), and SOC Seagull and three F6F Hellcats lining the port side, with spare floats lashed down aft (USN photo).

[A] Kamikaze [is] just meters above the flight deck of the escort carrier USS Savo Island (CVE-78) in this shot taken from the battleship USS West Virginia on 5 January 1945. It sheared off the carrier's air-search radar antenna with its wingtip and then hit the water close aboard. The splashes in the water to the right, no doubt from the battleship's anti-aircraft fire, highlight the constant danger of friendly fire among the closely-packed ships of the invasion fleet. Photo National Archives and Records Administration.

Photo and text from Fire From The Sky, by Robert C. Stern.