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Saltery Bay, renamed Saidor (CVE-117) on 5 June 1944, was laid down on 29 September 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., launched on 17 March 1945 and commissioned on 4 September 1945.
FATE: Saidor was decommissioned on 12 September 1947 and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Reclassified CVHE-117 on 12 June 1955, and AKV-17 on 7 May 1959, she remained in the Reserve Fleet until 1 December 1970 when she was struck from the Navy list. She was sold to American Ship Dismantlers, Portland, Oreg., for scrapping on 22 October 1971.
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77k | CVE-117 (later CVHE-117 and AKV-17) was initially named Saltery Bay for a bay on the south shore of Tenakee Inlet, Chichagof Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska (NS0311704). The bay was named in 1929 by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) because "a saltery is located there." Renamed Saidor, 5 June 1944, after a coastal town on northeast New Guinea (NS0311704a), possessing a good harbor and airstrip, occupied by Allied troops on 2 January 1944 (Operation Michaelmas). NS0311704b: LSTs unloading equipment on the shoreline of Saidor, 2 January 1944. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Signal Corps.) (Maps courtesy of Google Maps.) |
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 NS0311701 |
80k | USS Saidor (CVE-117) underway after making a turn to starboard, circa 1945. U.S. Navy photo from the U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation, Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection, # 1996.488.035.042. |
Robert Hurst Mike Green |
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 NS0311703 |
46k | Saidor as completed, circa 1945–1946. |
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 NS0311705 |
67k | USS Saidor (CVE-117) underway, circa 1945–1946, location unknown. |
David Buell | |
 NS0311707 |
319k | A U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat adds power after a wave-off during a landing attempt aboard the escort carrier USS Saidor (CVE-117), circa 1946. U.S. Navy photo from the Saidor 1945–1946 Cruise Book. |
Robert Hurst | |
 NS0311708 |
140k | USS Saidor (CVE-117) underway in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1946. On deck are about 25 Vought F4U Corsairs, five General Motors TBM Avengers and two Grumman J2F Ducks amphibians. U.S. Navy photo from the Saidor 1945–1946 Cruise Book. |
Robert Hurst | |
 NS0311709 |
285k | Test equipment aboard USS Saidor (CVE-117) before Operation Crossroads, circa June 1946. U.S. Navy photo from the Saidor 1945–1946 Cruise Book. |
Robert Hurst | |
 NS0311702 |
209k | USS Saidor CVE-117 about to enter Pearl Harbor on 04 May 1946. She served at Bikini as a photographic laboratory for the atomic bomb testing program, Operation Crossroads. She processed film, documenting the destructive power of atomic weapons on selected targets at various ranges, during the nuclear explosions of 1 and 25 July. | Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467, Collection, slide number 193B | |
 NS0311706 |
62.7M | "USS Saidor (CVE-117), This Is Your Ship" Booklet found in Gary's grandfather's cedar chest. |
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