The USS Mission Bay (CVE-59) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier laid down on December 28, 1942, and launched on May 26, the following year. It was commissioned on September 13, 1943, with the hull number CVE-59 under Capt. William L. Rees’ command and served in the US Navy for 15 years until it was decommissioned on September 1, 1958. During its activity, the ship carried a complement of 916 men on board and had its main missions in Casablanca, San Diego, Portsmouth, Recife, Cape Town, Karachi, Dakar, Mayport, Bermuda, Newport News, and Cuba. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on September 1, 1958, and sold for scrapping on April 30, the following year to Hugo Neu Corporation in New York. It’s common knowledge that asbestos is dangerous for one's health and can trigger serious and fatal diseases. Veterans who were deployed overseas could have unknowingly been exposed to asbestos, so it’s important for doctors to request a detailed history of a patient’s occupations over the years and of the tasks they undertook.
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