Comments: My Dad was on the USS Tripoli during the years of 1952 to 1956 . His name is Lewis Delano (Red) Anyone wishing to contact him please email me.Thanks

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WWII carpenter's mate David Beisel

Comments: David Beisel served on the Tripoli in WWII discharge papers show carpenter's mate second class also did diving and fire fighting duty

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USS Tripoli CVE-64 Cruise Book

Comments: Have a USS Tripoli CVE-64 cruise book (1954) for sale. Best offer.

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USS Tripoli Shipmate

Comments: My grandfather was on the USS Tripoli as a Torpedoman during WWII. His name was Olen Johnson from Arkansas. He left the service in 1945.

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My Father Served Aboard USS Tripoli in 1945

Comments: My father, LCDR Clifford Welsh USNR, served as Chief Engineer of Tripoli from February to November 1945, a period during which the ship was mostly involved in pilot qualification training. He passed away last year and I am editing his WWII memoirs for publication. They would be very interesting reading for anyone with an interest in this ship.

I need all possible information about Tripoli during this period, particularly: Photographs Log Books Details of the ship's movements Interior details of the engine rooms, catapult shack, and officers' berthing areas Career details for the following officer: Captain Hunte

I would really like to acquire a copy of the WWII cruise book for Tripoli and would pay A LOT for it.

Due credit will be given for anything contributed.

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Edward R. Black, "B" Div

Comments: Ed Black was from New Castle Indiana and served aboard the Tripoli (B Div) from 1951-1955. Would love to contact him, or anyone who knows of his whereabouts.

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USS Tripoli

Comments: My father was in WWII. He passed away in 1978, at the age of 56. He was in the Navy, I believe as a torpedoman. I think he was on the USS Tripoi. Was the USS Tripoi in WWII, or was it only in Korean War?

Keywords: H. L. Chuzzy Jenkins was his name. He was from Sugar Land Texas.

Looking for Shipmates-USS Tripoli CVE 64

Comments: USS TRIPOLI CVE 64

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Former USS TRIPOLI Shipmate

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Looking for Shipmates!

Comments: He has a few names and one in partuicular is a Carl Brashear! Anyone that remembers him or would like to contact him, please e-mail me! I will forward all messages etc to Charles. He is my boyfriends cousin from the Bronx, N.Y. Thanks!!!!!

Keywords: Looking for former Shipmates from the USS Tripoli who were on the ship during the Korean War! I'm looking for guys that remember a Charles Mauro!

Ship's History - Korean War Service

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USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)

“...the erstwhile "hunter-killer" began her new career as an aircraft transport and ferry.”

Displacement: 7,800 t. Length: 512’3” Beam: 65’ Extreme Width: 108’1” Draft: 22’6” Speed: 19 k. Complement: 860 Armament: 1 5”; 16 40mm; 20 20mm Class: CASABLANCA Maritime Commission standard type: S4-S2-BB3

Communist aggression in Korea in the summer of 1950 resulted in the return of many of the Navy's reserve ships to active service to support American operations in the Far East. Accordingly, TRIPOLI was recommissioned at New York on 5 January 1952, Capt. Raymond N. Sharp in command.

Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), Atlantic Area, the erstwhile "hunter-killer" began her new career as an aircraft transport and ferry. Over the next six years, TRIPOLI conducted 44 transport voyages, mostly to European and Mediterranean ports but with one visit to Hawaii and two to the Far East.

Following the ship's third voyage to Europe, TRIPOLI was berthed at the Port Newark Terminal on 5 August 1952, where she loaded 45 Republic F-84 Thunderjet aircraft, 90 wingtip fuel tanks, and related gear for transport to the Far East. After going to sea on 7 August, bound for Japan, TRIPOLI steamed via the Panama Canal and San Diego and made port at Yokosuka with her vital cargo on 5 September, where cranes lifted the reinforcements ashore--soon to be in action in their ground attack role in Korea.

After onloading battle-damaged aircraft for repairs in the United States, the carrier embarked 245 Navy and Marine Corps personnel for rotation back to Alameda Naval Air Station, Calif. Making port on the west coast on 22 September, she then put to sea for the Far East a second time, once again carrying jet aircraft to Yokosuka, as well as transporting men of the Sea Echelon of Boat Unit 1.

Loading a cargo of helicopters and military passengers, TRIPOLI returned to the west coast and arrived at Alameda on Armistice Day, 1953.

Subsequently making her sole Hawaiian voyage under MSTS, TRIPOLI then headed east to finish out her career with transport voyages to European and Mediterranean ports.

From: DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHTING SHIPS

Keywords: MILITARY SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, BOAT UNIT 1, HELICOPTERS