SOLD US Navy Plaque USS Randolph (CVS-15) . FLU3469

United States (U.S.) Navy Plaque of the USS Randolph (CVS-15). Near the bottom of plaque is an engraved section to: “William J. Ogle From the Officers USS Randolph CVS-15”. Most likely late 1950s-1960s era. Size approximately 11 1/2 inches x 9 inches. Nice central heavy brass Navy design in center of plaque.

Additional Notes:  The USS Randolph (CV/CVA/CVS-15) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during WW2 for the U.S. Navy. The second US Navy ship to bear the name, she was named for Founding Father Peyton Randolph, president of the First Continental Congress. The USS Randolph was commissioned in October of 1944 and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning three battle stars. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA-15), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS-15). In her second career she operated exclusively in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Caribbean. In the early 1960s she served as the recovery ship for two Project Mercury space missions, including John Glenn’s historic first orbital flight. She was decommissioned in 1969.

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