USS Rendova, a 11,373-ton Commencement Bay class escort aircraft carrier, was built at Tacoma, Washington. Commissioned in October 1945, some two months after the end of World War II, she conducted shakedown operations into the spring of 1946, was generally inactive for a year after that and then served in a training role. In April-July 1948, she transported aircraft from the U.S. west coast through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic and onward to Turkey, returning to the U.S. by way of the Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and Pacific Ocean. During the rest of 1948 and in 1949, in addition to conducting routine training operations, the carrier made two voyages to the Far East. Rendova decommisioned in January 1950 and was laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet.

Recalled to active duty in response to the Korean War crisis, Rendova was recommissioned in January 1951. She deployed to Korean waters between July and December 1951, where she mainly operated in the Yellow Sea with a Marine Corps fighter squadron flying close air support and other combat missions. Thereafter, she served as a training and anti-submarine warfare carrier. She participated in nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands in 1952 and made a final Western Pacific cruise in 1954. USS Rendova was decommissioned in June 1955. Rerated as an aircraft transport in May 1959, she carried the new hull number AKV-14 from then on, but remained in reserve. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in April 1971 and sold for scrapping in November 1972.