USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89)

History
USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89) underway in May 1944
United States
Laid down:	16 December 1943
Launched:	10 March 1944
Commissioned:	15 April 1944
Decommissioned:	18 June 1946
Fate:	sold for scrap
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,570 tons
Length:	512.3 ft (156.1 m) overall
Beam:	65.2 ft (19.9 m)
Draft:	22.5 ft (6.9 m)
Speed:	19.3 knots
Complement:	860
Armament:	1 × 5 in (127 mm) gun, 16 × Bofors 40 mm guns
Aircraft carried:	28

USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89) (also CVU-89) was a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier, named after Takanis Bay on the west side of Yakobi Island in Alaska (near Sitka).

She was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1126) on 16 December 1943 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, launched on 10 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Alden R. Sanborn, and commissioned on 15 April 1944, Captain A. R. Brady in command.

Service history

After shakedown, Takanis Bay operated out of San Diego with Fleet Air, West Coast, through the end of hostilities with Japan in mid-August 1945. She tested pilots for carrier operations, and between 24 May 1944 – 28 August 1945, she qualified 2,509 pilots.

On the latter day, she sailed for Hawaii and was assigned to Carrier Transport Squadron, Pacific Fleet. In two trips, she returned 1,300 servicemen to San Diego. Late in September, the carrier was assigned to the Operation Magic Carpet fleet which had been established for the sole purpose of bringing veterans home. At San Diego, bunks for 800 passengers were installed in the carrier, and she made two more round trip voyages to Hawaii and one to the Tokyo Bay area to repatriate servicemen.

Takanis Bay during her inactivation at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1946.

Takanis Bay arrived at San Pedro, California from her last voyage on 2 January 1946. She moved to Puget Sound in April, where inactivation work was begun, and she was decommissioned on 18 June. Takanis Bay was reclassified CVU-89 on 12 June 1955 and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 August 1959. She was sold on 29 June 1960 to Hyman-Michaels Company, Chicago, Illinois, for scrap and broken up in Portland, Oregon.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

External links

Photo gallery at navsource.org

Casablanca-class escort carrier

Casablanca Liscome Bay Anzio Corregidor Mission Bay Guadalcanal Manila Bay Natoma Bay St. Lo Tripoli Wake Island White Plains Solomons Kalinin Bay Kasaan Bay Fanshaw Bay Kitkun Bay Tulagi Gambier Bay Nehenta Bay Hoggatt Bay Kadashan Bay Marcus Island Savo Island Ommaney Bay Petrof Bay Rudyerd Bay Saginaw Bay Sargent Bay Shamrock Bay Shipley Bay Sitkoh Bay Steamer Bay Cape Esperance Takanis Bay Thetis Bay Makassar Strait Windham Bay Makin Island Lunga Point Bismarck Sea Salamaua Hollandia Kwajalein Admiralty Islands Bougainville Matanikau Attu Roi Munda

Preceded by: Sangamon class Followed by: Commencement Bay class List of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy

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