USS Sangamon (CVE-26) was a US Navy escort carrier of World War II. Originally Esso Trenton , a the T3 tanker oiler , built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, it was operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey on runs from gulf coast ports to the east coast. After entering service in the early part of the war in the Navy as a tanker, Sangamon was converted into an aircraft carrier. After conversion Sangamon was at the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1943 before moving to the war in the Pacific. Post war it was sold into civilian ownership and scrapped in 1960.