page_title: USS Corregidor
section_title: Korea
hierarchical_section_title: USS Corregidor / Service history / Korea
caption_attribution_description: Two photos from the U.S. Military Sealift Command utility aircraft carrier USNS Corregidor (T-CVU-58) in July 1958 off Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea. When the Lebanon crisis broke in the summer of 1958, Corregidor was at Brindisi, Italy, and immediately lifted two U.S. Army De Havilland Canada L-20 Beaver reconnaissance planes of the 24th Infantry Division, and 10 Sikorsky H-34 Chocktaw helicopters to support the landings.
context_page_description: USS Corregidor was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
  She was laid down as Auguilla Bay, was reclassified ACV-58 on 20 August 1942 and launched as Corregidor on 12 May 1943 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, of Vancouver, Washington, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. J. Hallett. She was reclassified CVE-58 on 15 July 1943, acquired by the Navy on 31 August 1943; and commissioned the same day, Captain R. L. Bowman in command.
context_section_description: Recommissioned on 19 May 1951, Corregidor was assigned to operate with the Military Sea Transport Service, (later Military Sealift Command). She ferried men, aircraft, and aviation cargo to NATO nations under the Mutual Defense Assistance Plan, but also made five voyages through the Panama Canal to bring men and cargo to the United Nations forces in Korea in 1952-1954. Corregidor was reclassified T-CVU-58 on 12 June 1955. When the Lebanon crisis broke in the summer of 1958, Corregidor was at Brindisi, Italy, and immediately lifted two reconnaissance planes of the 24th Infantry Division, and 10 helicopters to support the landings in Lebanon. Returning to the United States, the ship suffered hull damage in the Atlantic Ocean due to high seas on the night of 2 April 1958. She was transiting from Barcelona, Spain to NAS Pensacola, Florida, with 20 officers and 150 enlisted men. She made an emergency stop-over in the Azores.Corregidor was decommissioned on 4 September 1958, and sold for scrap on 28 April 1959.
caption: U.S. Army aircraft lift off Corregidor off Lebanon, 1958.
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