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NavSource Online: Escort Carrier Photo Archive

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

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Kilo - Yankee - Echo

Unit Awards, Campaign and Service Medals and Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal / Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2 stars)
2nd Row: World War II Victory Medal / Philippine Presidential Unit Citation / Philippine Liberation Medal

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.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
Name
NS0308510	141k	CVE-85 was named for a bay in southwest Alaska, in Kosciusko Island, and opening into Sumner Strait, Alexander archipelago. Named by LCDR Albert S. Snow, USN, in 1886, after ENS John H. Shipley, USN, a member of his party. (Map courtesy of Google Maps.)	NavSource
Construction
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
NS0308501	65k	Excellent overhead showing AA armament.	USN
NS0308501a	147k	Another view, as above. Date and location unknown.	Paul D. Elliot
NS0308511	188k	Avenger torpedo-bomber takes off with jet assistance (JATO—Jet Assisted Take Off), USS *Shipley Bay* (CVE-85), date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Tommy Trampp
NS0308511a	303k	*Shipley Bay's War Diary entry for 31 January 1945 might* be related to the photo above.	Byron Como
NS0308506	157k	A photo of USS *Shipley Bay* (CVE-85) operating off the Southern California coast, taken by an airship from ZP-31 on 24 April 1944, not long after her commissioning. Camouflaged in Measure 32, Design 15A.	David Buell
NS0308505	283k	USS *Shipley Bay* (CVE-85) at anchor off Majuro Atoll, 18 May 1944. She had just arrived from the West Coast of the United States with a deck load of replacement aircraft destined for the occupation of the Marshall Islands. Her camouflage, Measure 32 Design 15A, is still in good condition (USN photo).	Robert Hurst Larger copy submitted by Gerd Matthes & Robert Hurst
NS0308512	356k	USS *Shipley Bay* (CVE-85) at an unidentified location, 27 June 1944, wearing camouflage 32/15A. The ship has a deck load of Navy PBY aircraft. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo # 80-G-282286.	Courtesy of C. Lee Johnson, usndazzle.com, via Mike Green
NS0308507	96k	Unidentified (March 1945?).	Paul D. Elliot
NS0308508	78k	Unidentified (March 1945?).	Paul D. Elliot
NS0308509	74k	1,000th landing (March 1945?).	Paul D. Elliot
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
NS0308502	56k	In reserve. South Boston Naval Annex, 1959. Also visible is ex-USS Stockham (DD-683).	© Richard Leonhardt
For more photos and information about this ship, see: Commanding Officers of USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85)