A History of HMS Chaser

Laid down 28 June 1941, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula, Mississippi as a Maritime Commission C3-S-A2 type freighter, hull number 162, Ingalls hull number 295, a 11,900 ton freighter Mormacgulf for the US operator Moore-McCormack Lines; she was launched 19 June 1942.

The Mormacgulf was purchased by the US navy to be the USS BRETON AVG – 10, but this was cancelled when it was decided that AVG - 10 was to be transferred to the Admiralty on loan). AVG – 10 was transferred to the Royal Navy and was commissioned 9 April 1943 as HMS CHASER (D32), Captain H.V.P. McClintock RN in command. US designation now became BAVG – 10, and CVE-10 on July 15th, 1943.

Returned to USN 12 May 1946, stricken for disposal 3 July 1946. Sold into merchant service 20 Dec 1946 as Aagtekerk. Renamed E Yung 1967. Burned and run ashore at Kaohsiung, Taiwan 20 Dec 1972 (or sank 4 December 1973; records are unclear); hulk scrapped in Taiwan in 1973.