USS Gambier Bay CVE-73
USS Gambier Bay/VC-10 :
Originally classified AVG-73, was reclassified ACV-73 on 20 August 1942 and again reclassified CVE-73 on 15 July 1943; launched under a Maritime Commission Contract by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash., 22 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. H. C. Zitzewitz of Oswego, Oreg.; and commissioned at Astoria, Oreg., 28 December 1943, Captain Hugh H. Goodwin in command.
USS Gambier Bay/VC-10 : She was sunk in the Battle off Samar after helping to turn back a much larger attacking Japanese surface force.