USS Copahee
USS Copahee in 1944
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Copahee |
Namesake | Copahee Sound in South Carolina |
Laid down | 18 June 1941 |
Launched | 21 October 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 June 1942 |
Decommissioned | 5 July 1946 |
Stricken | 1 March 1959 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1961 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bogue-class escort carrier |
Displacement | 7,800 tons |
Length | 495.7 ft (151.1 m) |
Beam | 111.5 ft (34.0 m) |
Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers (285 psi); 1 steam turbine; 1 shaft; 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
Complement | 890 officers and men |
Armament | 2 × 40 mm, 27 × 20 mm guns |
Aircraft carried | 24 |
USS Copahee (CVE-12) was a Bogue-class escort carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Originally classified AVG-12, was changed to ACV-12, 20 August 1942; CVE-12, 15 July 1943; and CVHE-12, 12 June 1955.
She was laid down on 18 June 1941, as Steel Architect, under
Service history
Sailing from
After training at Pearl Harbor, Copahee sailed to San Diego, arriving 25 February 1943 to begin transport duty carrying aircraft, aviation stores and personnel to the forward bases in the New Hebrides, Fijis, and New Caledonia as well as islands in the Hawaiian chain, departing San Diego on 10 March 1943 until 7 June 1943.
Between 2 September 1943 and 19 January 1944, she made two voyages to deliver aircraft at
After overhaul, Copahee returned to transport duty. Until the end of the war she made six voyages from Alameda, carrying her vital cargo to
Copahee was redesignated as a helicopter escort carrier (CVHE-12) on 12 June 1955. Stricken for disposal on 1 March 1959, Copahee was sold for scrap in 1961.[citation needed]
Awards
Copahee received one
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.