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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. |