USS Long Island (CVE 1)

USS Long Island on 27 April 1944.

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Long Island / Archer
Pennant	CVE 1
Built by	Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	7 Jul 1939
Launched	11 Jan 1940
Commissioned	2 Jun 1941
End service	26 Mar 1946
History	Completed as the merchant Mormacmail. Aquired by the US Navy on 6 March 1941 and commissioned 2 June 1941 as its first escort carrier. Decommissioned 26 March 1946. Stricken 12 April 1946. Sold 24 April 1947 to be broken up for scrap but resold 12 March 1948 and converted for merchant service as Nelly. She became the schoolship Seven Seas in 1953 and was hulked at Rotterdam as a floating dormitory in 1966. Scrapped in 1977 in Belgium.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Donald Bradley Duncan, USN	2 Jun 1941	26 Dec 1941
2	Cdr. John Jennings Ballentine, USN	26 Dec 1941	18 Apr 1942
3	Cdr. James Duke Barner, USN	18 Apr 1942	1 Feb 1943
4	T/Capt. James Homer McKay, USN	1 Feb 1943	18 Jul 1944
5	Edward Orrick McDonnell, USNR	18 Jul 1944	Dec 1944
6	T/Cdr. William Millage Nation, USN	Dec 1944	27 Aug 1945
7	T/Capt. Lex Leroy Black, USN	27 Aug 1945	Jan 1946

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