USS Wolverine

The aircraft carrier USS Wolverine, was once a side-wheel excursion steamer on the Great Lakes built in 1913, she was named S.S. Seeandbee, and built by the American Ship Building Company of Wyandotte, Michigan. The United States Navy bought her on March 12, 1942 and began converting her to an aircraft carrier shortly thereafter. Her conversion to a training aircraft carrier began on 6 May 1942 with the ship commissioned on 12 August 1942.

Possessing a 550 ft flight deck, USS Wolverine went into service in January 1943 as a training vessel for qualifying pilots in carrier landing techniques. The Wolverine  lacked certain equipment found on fleet carriers, such as elevators or a hangar deck.

Because she could only make 18 knots top speed she had operational limits when wind was not blowing and providing wind over deck minimums of around 30 knots needed to land combat aircraft such as F6F Hellcats or F4U Corsairs; no less heavier dive-bombers and torpedo bombers. After the Japanese surrender Wolverine was decommissioned on November 7, 1945 and scrapped in December 1947.