Hollandia is the town on Humboldt Bay, on the north coast of New Guinea, taken by an American landing on 22 April 1944. Kaiser at Vancouver launched the escort carrier on 28 April 1944 as Astrolabe Bay. Mrs. William H. Wheat sponsored her. She was renamed Hollandia on 30 May, and Captain C. L. Lee commissioned her on 1 June 1944.
After training off the west coast she left San Diego on 10 July for a shakedown to Espiritu Santo, carrying replacement aircraft, and on the way home stopped at Manus and Guadalcanal. She reached Port Hueneme on 27 August. Over the next months she made the same kind of cruise between the United States and Manus, Ulithi, and Guam.
She was at anchor in Ulithi on 1 April 1945 when the Okinawa assault began. She sailed the next day, and her fighters supported the troops ashore. She was back at San Diego on 1 May. After a cargo and passenger voyage to Pearl Harbor and home, she left on 7 June, loaded replacement aircraft at Pearl Harbor, and sailed on 18 June with the Third Fleet's logistic supply unit. For the last two months of the war she brought replacements to the fast carriers off Japan.
After the surrender she was converted at Guam into a passenger ship and made four Magic Carpet voyages, then returned to San Pedro. She left on 4 February 1946, reached Puget Sound on 15 February, and was decommissioned on 17 January 1947. She received two battle stars. In reserve she became CVU-97 on 12 June 1955 and AKV-33 on 7 May 1959. Eisenberg and Company of New York bought her in July 1960, and she was scrapped.