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USS CAPE GLOUCESTER   (CVE-109)
(later CVHE-109 and AKV-9)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Alpha - Zulu
(Ex- WILLAPA BAY)
CLASS - COMMENCEMENT BAY
Displacement 11,3730 Tons, Dimensions, 557' 7" (oa) x 75' x 30' 8" (Max)
Armament 2 x 5"/38AA 36 x 40mm, 20 x 20mm, 33 Aircraft.
Machinery, 16,000 SHP; Allis-Chambers, Geared Turbines, 2 screw
Speed, 19 Knots, Crew 1066.
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CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS0310901		 66k Bureau of Ships photo # 92916. Jim Gregg, PhoMate 3/c, USS Cape Gloucester, 1946
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS0310902		 158k Docking, date and place unknown. (From ship's photographic files). Jim Gregg, PhoMate 3/c, USS Cape Gloucester, 1946
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS0310903		 214k Underway, date and place unknown. (From ship's photographic files). Jim Gregg, PhoMate 3/c, USS Cape Gloucester, 1946
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS0310904		 110k

CAPT Burroughs inspects crew.

Captain Sherman E. Burroughs was the first Commanding Officer of the Naval Ordnance Test Station China Lake, where extensive guided missile and rocket testing and research occurred. Burroughs High School at Inyokern, site of the NOTS, is named after him.

 Jim Gregg, PhoMate 3/c, USS Cape Gloucester, 1946
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS0310905		 70k

USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) underway, date and place unknown.

 Robert Hurst
"Mothballed"
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS09051616		 75k

USS Mount Katmai (AE-16) at time of Inclining Experiment at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 2 March 1949. Cape Gloucester is "mothballed" and USS Princeton (CV-37) being prepared for inactivation on the opposite pier.

US Naval Shipyard Puget Sound photo # NY8-3148 now in the collections of the US National Archives, Seattle Branch.

 Tracy White
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS09051618		 79k

As above.

US Naval Shipyard Puget Sound photo # NY8-3151 now in the collections of the US National Archives, Seattle Branch.

 Tracy White
CVE-109 Cape Gloucester
NS09051619		 65k

As above.

US Naval Shipyard Puget Sound photo # NY8-3152 now in the collections of the US National Archives, Seattle Branch.

 Tracy White
USS CAPE GLOUCESTER CVE-109 History
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