CVE-117 USS Saidor  
CVE-117 USS Saidor

Class

Commencement Bay Class

Builder

Todd Pacific Shipyards Inc.

Tacoma Washington

Laid down

29 September 1944

Launched

17 March 1945

Commissioned

4 September 1945

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign

NKBX

Camouflage

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NS San Diego CA
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12. December 1945 - 20. March 1946
West Pacific / Hawaii-Aera
VMF-213 FG-1D 0
 

 

 

   
last update 2. November 2019
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NS Pearl Harbor HI
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March 1946 - April 1946
Trip to Norfolk
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last update 2. November 2010
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NS Norfolk VA
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16 April 1946 to 22 April 1946
East Atlantic
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last update 2. November 2010
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NS Norfolk VA
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April 1946 to May 1946
Trip to San Diego
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last update 2. November 2010
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NS San Diego CA
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6. May 1946 - August 1946
West Pacific (Operation Crossroads)
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last update 2. November 2010
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NS San Diego CA
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Decommissioned

12 September 1947

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History (short)

Following shakedown off the United States west coast, she served at Pearl Harbor from 12 December 1945 to 20 March 1946. Sailing via the Panama Canal, she operated at Norfolk, Va., from 16 April to 22 April, before returning via the Panama Canal to the west coast. Departing San Diego on 6 May, Saidor arrived at Bikini on the 24th to serve as a photographic laboratory for the atomic bomb testing program, Operation Crossroads. She processed film, documenting the destructive power of atomic weapons on selected targets at various ranges, during the nuclear explosions of 1 July and 25 July. She departed Bikini on 4 August and returned to San Diego where she remained into 1947, when she began inactivation.
Saidor was decommissioned on 12 September 1947 and berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Reclassified CVHE-117 on 12 June 1955, and AKV-17 on 7 May 1959, she remained in the Reserve Fleet until 1 December 1970 when she was struck from the Navy list. She was sold to American Ship Dismantlers, Portland, Oreg., for scrapping on 22 October 1971.


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