Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - X-Ray - Yankee
Originally classified AVG-83, was reclassified ACV-83 on 20 August1942,
allocated to Great Britain, under Lend Lease, on 11 November,
reallocated to the United States on 21 June 1943; reclassified CVE-83
on 15 July. laid down on 8 November 1943; launched on
31 January 1944, and commissioned on 9 March 1944.
Decommissioned to reserve on 23 July 1946.
Reclassified "Utility Aircraft Carrier" and redesignated CVU-83 on 12 June 1955, while in
reserve.
FATE Struck from the Navy list on 27 June 1958
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 NS0308309 |
18k | Mrs. Rissie Farrnick of the Salvage shop, flower girl, presents flowers to the sponsor. Sargent Bay, Vancouver's 29th escort carrier, was launched on Monday, January 31, 1944 and sponsored by Mrs. Edith W. DeBaun, wife of Captain George H. DeBaun, a ranking naval flier. Attendants were Mrs. O. M. Mikkelson, matron of honor, and Mrs. Farrnick.
(From "Bo's'n's Whistle," Vol. 4, No. 3; February 11, 1944; page 7.) |
Courtesy of Ron Gough, Bea Dee, Ltd., Kaiser Vancouver / Swan Island & Oregon Shipyards website |
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 NS0308305 |
154k | Underway, circa 1944. USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83) was camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 15A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.) | Jerry Wintermute |
 NS0308310 |
81k | USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83) at anchor, circa 1944, location unknown. USN photo. |
Robert Hurst |
 NS0308301 |
65k | This is a photo of FM-2 Wildcat D-12. It has just crashed into the barrier on USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83). The date is August 27, 1944. The pilot was LT(JG) Bob Hambley of VC-79. He survived the crash,and is still with us. |
Frank Harmon |
 NS0308302 |
75k | Okinawa Campaign, 1945 — Ships in Kerama Retto anchorage spread an anti-kamikaze smoke screen, 3 May 1945, seen from USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83). TBM and FM-2 aircraft are on her flight deck. Ship in left center is USS Pinkney (APH-2), which had been damaged by a Kamikaze on 28 April. Photographed by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Oliver E. Pfeiffer. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-342629). |
Scott Dyben |
 NS0308307 |
116k | Lt. McNinch, VC-83, leaves VF-4 after water landing, 30 May 1945. |
Jerry Wintermute |
 NS0308308 |
153k | Lt. McNinch, VC-83, returned to USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83) after rescue from water by USS Richard S. Bull (DE-402), 30 May 1945. |
Jerry Wintermute |
 NS0308306 |
91k | USS Spikefish (SS-404) rescues Ens. Cullen (in raft, lower right), VC-83, off Ishigaki Jima, 7 June 1945. Picture was posted in the ship's library where I was assigned as Chaplain's assistant. |
Jerry Wintermute |
 NS0308303 |
59k | In reserve. South Boston Naval Annex, 1959. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
 NS0308304 |
58k | As above. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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