| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Card |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1941 |
| Launched: | 27 February 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 May 1958 as USNS Card |
| Decommissioned: | 10 March 1970 |
| Struck: | 15 September 1970 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Clatskanie, Oregon, 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Bogue-class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 9,800 long tons (9,957 t) |
| Length: | 496 ft (151 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 890 officers and men |
| Armament: | • 2 × 4 in (100 mm) guns • 2 × Bofors 40 mm gun • 35 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 12 × TBM and 16 × FM2 |
| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II Vietnam War |
| Awards: | Presidential Unit Citation 3 battle stars (WWII) |
USS Card (AVG-11/ACV-11/CVE-11/CVHE-11/CVU-11/T-CVU-11/T-AKV-40) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier. Her hull was laid down on 27 October 1941 as a C-3 cargo ship but it was acquired from the Maritime Commission while under construction and was converted into an escort carrier.
She was launched as AVG 11 (hull 178) on 27 February 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, Tacoma, Washington, sponsored by Mrs. J. Perry. Reclassified ACV-11 on 20 August 1942 she was commissioned 8 November 1942 with Captain J. B. Sykes in command.