USS Tripoli (CVE-64) was a Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy, the first ship to carry her name. She was built under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1101) at Vancouver, Washington, and was laid down by the Kaiser Shipyards on 1 February 1943 as Didrickson Bay (ACV-64). Renamed Tripoli on 3 April 1943 and launched on 13 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Leland D. Webb, and commissioned on 31 October 1943, at Astoria, Oregon, Captain Wendell G. Switzer in command.