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Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Sangamon
Pennant	CVE 26
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	13 Mar, 1939
Launched	4 Nov, 1939
Commissioned	25 Aug, 1942
End service	24 Oct, 1945
Loss position

History	Laid down as Esso Trenton (hull 7) and launched as such. She operated, by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from the gulf coast to the east coast. Aquired by the US Navy on 22 October 1940 she was designated a fleet oiler (AO 28) and commissioned as such a day later. Converted at to carrier at Newport News she was commissioned on 25 August 1942. Bombed on 19 October 1944, damaged further by a kamikaze on 25 October 1944 at Leyte, Again damaged by a kamikaze on 4 May 1945. In repair and overhaul for the remainder of the war. Repairs were incomplete at the end of the war. Decommissioned and stricken for disposal 24 October 1945. Sold 11 February 1948 and scrapped.

USS Sangamon (CVE 26)