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Block Island (LPH-1)

Commencement Bay Class Escort Aircraft Carrier:

Launched, 10 June 1941, as Sunset Bay at Todd-Pacific Shipyards Inc. Tacoma WA.

Commissioned USS Block Island (CVE-106), 30 December 1944

Decommissioned 28 May 1946

Recommissioned 28 April 1951

Decommissioned 27 August 1954

Redesignated Amphibious Assault Ship (Helicopter) (LPH-1), 22 December 1957

Conversion planning cancelled June 1958

Reverted to (CVE-106)

Redesignated Aviation Transport (AKV-38), 7 May 1959

Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1959

CVE-Specifications
Displacement 11,373 tons
Length 577'
Beam 105'2"
Draft 32'
Speed19 kts

Armament

two 5"/38 single dual purpose gun mounts

thirty-six 40mm single gun mounts

twenty 20mm single gun mounts., 30 aircraft

Complement 1066

Propulsion steam

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Block Island (LPH-1)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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