USS Sangamon
Career (United States)
Name: Esso Trenton
Owner: Standard Oil Company
Builder: Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Laid down: 13 March 1939
Launched: 4 November 1939
Sponsored by: Mrs. Clara Esselborn
Fate: Purchased by the US Navy
Career
Name: USS Sangamon
Acquired: 22 October 1940
Commissioned: 23 October 1940, as (AO-28) fleet oiler
Decommissioned: 25 February 1942
Reclassified: AVG-26, 14 February 1942
Refit: Converted to escort carrier
Recommissioned: 25 August 1942
Decommissioned: 24 October 1945
Reclassified: ACV-26, 20 August 1942
CVE-26, 15 July 1943
Struck: 1 November 1945
Fate: Sold, 11 February 1948, Scrapped in Osaka, Japan, August 1960
General characteristics as escort carrier
Class and type: Sangamon-class escort carrier
Displacement: 11,400 long tons (11,600 t) standard, 24,275 long tons (24,665 t) full
Length: 553 ft (169 m)
Beam: 114 ft 3 in (34.82 m)
Draft: 32 ft 4 in (9.86 m)
Propulsion: 2 × steam turbines
2 × shafts
Speed: 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement: 830 officers and men
Sensors and
processing systems: SG Radar[1]
Armament: 2 × 127mm/51 cal guns (2x1)
8 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns (4x2)
12 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons (12x1)
Aircraft carried: 25
Aviation facilities: 2 × elevators
Service record
Operations: World War II
Awards: 8 battle stars. Her three air groups were each awarded the Presidential Unit Citation