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USS Leyte
Three
United States Navy
ships have been named
USS
Leyte
, after the island of
Leyte
in the
Philippines
, off which the
Battle of Leyte Gulf
occurred in
1944
.
The first
Leyte
was a
Spanish
gunboat
built in
1887
in
Hong Kong
and captured in the
Spanish-American War
.
The second
Leyte
(ARG-8) was a repair ship commissioned August
1944
and renamed
Maui
in May
1945
so as to make name available.
The third
Leyte
(CV-32)
was an
aircraft carrier
commissioned
1946
and decommissioned
1959
.