Aircraft carrier SANGAMON (CVE-26)
Owner:Standard Oil Company
Builder:Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Laid down:13 March 1939
Launched:4 November 1939
Sponsored by:Mrs. Clara Esselborn
Fate:Purchased by the US Navy
Acquired: 22 October 1940
Commissioned:23 October 1940, as (AO-28) fleet oiler
Decommissioned:25 February 1942
Reclassified:AVG-26, 14 February 1942
Refit:Converted to escort carrier
Recommissioned:25 August 1942
Decommissioned:24 October 1945
Reclassified:ACV-26, 20 August 1942, CVE-26, 15 July 1943
Fate:Sold, 11 February 1948, Scrapped in Osaka, Japan, August 1960