USN · CVE

Steamer Bay

Afloat

Casablanca-class escort carrier, CVE-87. She ferried marines and aircraft to the Marshalls, supplied replacement aircraft to Task Force 38 in the Palaus and Philippines, and was in the Taffy 2 group on the way to Lingayen in January 1945.

Class	Casablanca class
Type	Escort carrier (CVE)
Hull	CVE-87
Builder	Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, Vancouver, Washington
Launched	1944-02-26
Commissioned	1944-04-04
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war with six battle stars. Struck in March 1959 and sold for scrap on 29 August 1959.
Armament (class)	Escort carrier. Flight deck over a merchant hull, small island set aft, one 5-inch gun.
Command	Teller, Myron Steadman Commanding officer from 4 April 1944; Relieved on 21 January 1945 Paschal, Joseph Bennett Captain from 21 January 1945

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87) with two TBM Avengers and two FM Wildcats on deck. The date of the photograph is not recorded. USS Steamer website [1]. Wikimedia Commons File:CVE-87 USS Steamer Bay.JPG. Public domain.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

MTTeller, Myron SteadmanCommanding officer from 4 April 1944Relieved on 21 January 1945

Paschal, Joseph BennettCaptain from 21 January 1945

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