US Navy's USS “Thetis Bay” at Hamburg. West Germany, in June 1963
Designation: Landing Platform, Helicopter
Builder: Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Washington
Displacement tons: 7,800 (light), 10,400 (full load)
Length overall: 156.13 m
Engines: 2 x 5-cylinder Skinner Unaflow steam engines
Speed; 19 knots
Laid down 22nd December 1943 as US Maritime Commission MC hull-1127
Commissioned 12th April 1944 as a Casablanca-class escort carrier with pennant no. CVE-90
In May 1955 commenced conversion to an assault helicopter aircraft carrier at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard; recommissioned 20th July 1956 with pennant no. CVHA-1
Re-designated to LPH-6 on 28th May 1959
Decommissioned 1st March 1964 & sold for scrap in December of that year.