Pacific ships
USS Tripoli (CVE-64)

USN · CVE

Tripoli

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Afloat

Casablanca-class escort carrier, CVE-64, the first Tripoli. Kaiser, Vancouver. Laid down as Didrickson Bay and renamed Tripoli on 3 April 1943. Commissioned at Astoria on 31 October 1943, Captain Wendell G. Switzer. A gasoline fire at San Diego on 4 January 1944 killed one man. She hunted submarines in the Atlantic, then from January 1945 ferried aircraft and trained pilots in the Pacific. Decommissioned at Norfolk on 22 May 1946.

ClassCasablanca class
TypeEscort carrier (CVE)
HullCVE-64
BuilderKaiser, Vancouver
Launched1943-07-13
Commissioned1943-10-31
FateAfloat. Casablanca-class escort carrier. Commissioned 31 October 1943. Atlantic hunter-killer duty, then Pacific ferry and training from January 1945. Decommissioned 22 May 1946. Recommissioned 5 January 1952 as an aircraft transport. Decommissioned at New Orleans on 25 November 1958. Struck 1 February 1959. Scrapped in 1960.
Armament (class)Escort carrier. Flight deck over a merchant hull, small island set aft, one 5-inch gun.
Command

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 Tripoli (CVE-64) underway in April 1944. The hull number 64 is on the flight deck. U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

WSSwitzer, Wendell G.Commissioned her, 31 October 1943WSSwitzer, Wendell GrayCaptain from 31 October 1943Relieved on 20 June 1944Thayer Talbot TuckerTucker, Thayer TalbotCaptain from 20 June 1944Relieved on 6 May 1945Louis Henry HunteHunte, Louis HenryCaptain from 6 May 1945Relieved on 30 April 1946RHHess, Robert Ernest Jr.Commander in command from 30 April 1946Relieved on 22 May 1946

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