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USS SHIPLEY BAY   (CVE-85)
(later CVHE-85)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Yankee - Echo
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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CVE-85 Shipley Bay
NS0308504		 9k

Mrs. Lawrence B. Richardson (right,) wife of RADM Richardson (Bureau of Aeronautics,) christened Shipley Bay (CVE-85) on Saturday, February 12, 1944. Plate ship welder Mm. Helen Larkin, wife of Marine Brig. Gen. Claude A. Larkin (left,) presented flowers.

(From "Bo's'n's Whistle," Vol. 4, No. 4; February 25, 1944; page 7.)

 Courtesy of Ron Gough,
Bea Dee, Ltd.,
Kaiser Vancouver / Swan Island & Oregon Shipyards website
World War II
CVE-85 Shipley Bay
NS0308501		 65k Excellent overhead showing AA armament. USN
CVE-85 Shipley Bay
NS0308505		 41k

USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85) at anchor in the Marshall Islands, May 1944, with a deck load of replacement aircraft (USN photo). Camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 15A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.)

 Robert Hurst
CVE-85 Shipley Bay
NS0308503		 28k V-4 Division, July 1945. Front row, center to right: LT(JG) Watson, Division officer; Hugh Stratford (the chief with the wind-blown tie); Fergenson(?); Bob Wood. Hugh Stratford, USS Shipley Bay
Ex-USS Shipley Bay
CVE-85 Shipley Bay
NS0308502		 56k In reserve. South Boston Naval Annex, 1959. Also visible is ex-USS Stockham (DD-683). © Richard Leonhardt
USS SHIPLEY BAY CVE-85 History
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