Escort carrier USS Sargent Bay (CVE-83), originally classified AVG-83, was reclassified ACV-83 on 20 August 1942, allocated to the United Kingdom under Lend Lease on 11 November, reallocated to the United States on 21 June 1943, reclassified CVE-83 on 15 July. laid down on 8 November 1943 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company of Vancouver, Washington under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1120), launched on 31 January 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Edith W. DeBaun, and commissioned on 9 March 1944, Captain William Theodore Rassieur in command.