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CVE-75 USS HOGGATT BAY
(later CVHE-75 and AKV-25)



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Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons

   

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Unit Commendation
2nd Row: American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6 stars) / World War II Victory Medal
3rd Row: Navy Occupation Service Medal ("Asia" clasp) / Philippine Presidential Unit Citation / Philippine Liberation Medal (2 stars)

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.

Fate: Sold to E. Erhardt y Cia., S.L., c/o Jacques Pierot & Sons, N.Y., on 31 March 1960 for $218,888.89. Scrapped in Bilbao, Spain.

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AVG-75 (later ACV-75, CVE-75, CVHE-75 and AKV-25) was named Hoggatt Bay for a bay on the eastern coast of Baranof Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska. The bay was named in 1895 by LCDR Edwin K. Moore, USN, for ENS Wilford B. Hoggatt, USN, a member of his party. Hoggatt was Governor of Alaska from 1906 to 1909.

(Image: Google Maps.)

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Hoggatt Bay was sponsored by Mrs. Esther Irene Sundvik, wife of Victor Sundvik, a Vancouver Way 2 shipwright. Mrs. Sundvik was a cook at Burton Homes, and the first sponsor chosen from among yard employees.

(From "Bo's'n's Whistle," Vol. 3, No. 23; December 9, 1943; page 6.)

Courtesy of Ron Gough,
Bea Dee, Ltd.,
Kaiser Vancouver / Swan Island & Oregon Shipyards website
World War II
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Eating chow at battle station aboard USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75). The photograph is dated 5 January 1944, but this is probably incorrect, as the ship was not yet commissioned at the time.

Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo #80-G-304443.

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A 2,000 pound bomb on the flight deck of USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75). The photograph is dated 8 January 1944, but this is probably incorrect, as the ship was not yet commissioned at the time.

Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo #80-G-304440.

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January 1944 port bow view of the newly commissioned USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75), moored in Astoria, Oregon.

US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum photo (# 1996.488.034.022). Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection.

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Undated. Underway with aircraft on deck. Camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 12A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.)

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Hoggatt Bay W.W.II
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Excellent overhead showing general configuration of this class. Camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 12A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.)

Bob Dunn MM3
Hoggatt Bay W.W.II
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A North American SNJ Texan taking off from USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75), circa 1944.

Photo courtesy Joan Hamilton Collection. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # UA 571.23.

Robert Hurst
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"Crossing the Line" ceremony, late May 1944.

"[T]he granddaddy of all seagoing ceremonies [is] the shellback initiation when a ship crosses the Equator, in which 'pollywogs' (sailors who have not previously crossed the Line) become 'shellbacks' (fit subjects of King Neptune)."

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"We won't go into detail on what occurs when Neptune and his court are piped aboard and the pollywogs join the Order of the Shellbacks, because that's a mystery of the deep, after all. Suffice it to say, that when the day ends, the Shellback has arrived."

"To prove it, he has a certificate of impressive size, festooned with drawings of fish, mermaids and a trident-wielding Neptune, [...]"

(Text above quoted from "Crossing the Line, Plank Owner and Other Unofficial Certificates Acquired by Naval Personnel.")

Photos from the collection of Pearl Harbor Survivor Dale Magnus. Dale, an RM3/c at the time, was already a Shellback when he took the photos.

Dale Magnus,
via Carol Edgemon Hipperson, author of "Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific."
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"Victory Celebration Aboard a Navy 'Baby' Flat-Top"

"Navy men aboard the carrier USS Hoggatt Bay performing a snake dance in celebration of our victory over Japan."

Detroit Times, 30 August 1945.

Chronicling America,
via Michael Mohl
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Boxing Match between men from USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75) and USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83), 3 November 1944, which was staged on the Hoggatt Bay hangar deck. Shown, left to right: STM2/C L. Johnson (winner), and S2/C D.E. Rodriquez.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, #80-G-263886.

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Passengers on the flight deck of USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75) during heavy seas, 5 December 1945.

NS0307511: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-375565.

NS0307511a: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-375567.

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40mm guns firing aboard USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75). Photograph received 3 June 1946.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-375577.

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20mm guns firing aboard USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75). Photograph received 3 June 1946.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-375578.

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20mm gun firing aboard USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75). Photograph received 3 June 1946.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-375580.

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Two pages from Cruises of the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay, January 11, 1944 to December 7, 1945.

Mark James
The Crew
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Ship's band. Robert J. James, Mark's father, is on the far right.

Mark James

For more photos and information about this ship, see:

Read the
USS HOGGATT BAY (CVE-75 / CVHE-75 / AKV-25) DANFS History entry
Read United States Navy, "The story of the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay" (1946). World War Regimental Histories, 145,
at the Bangor, Maine Public Library website, via Jonathan Eno.

Crew Contact and Reunion Information
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Contact: Ted C. Harper,
Director, USS Hoggatt Bay Association
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E-mail: TCHARPE@aol.com
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