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Pennant Number:


D32 - R306

 


Battle Honours:


Atlantic 1943

Arctic 1944

Okinawa 1945

 


Specifications: 


Builder:

Ingalls Shipbuilding
Corp, Pascagoula, Mississippi

 


Displacement:

14,170 tons


length (Overall):

 486ft


Beam:

 69 ft 6 in


Speed:

 18 knots


Crew Complement:

646


A/C Capacity:

20


Commanding Officers:


Lt.Cdr. S.K. Horn RN May 42 – Jan 43

 

***
Capt. |Capt. H.V.P. McClintock RN
Feb 43 – Jun 44

 

***
Capt. R.G. Poole RN Jan 45 – Jul 45

 

***
Cdr. M.N. Tufnell RN Aug 45 – May 46

 


Squadrons:


816

Feb-Mar 44
Wildcat V

 

835

Nov-Dec 43
Swordfish II

 

899

Jan-Apr 45
Seafire L.III

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Content revised: July 2008

Sources used in compiling this account:

Brown, D. (1974) ‘Carrier Operations in World War 2 – vol 1 the Royal Navy’ Shepperton, Ian Allen Ltd.

Hobbs, D. (2003) 'Royal Navy Escort Carriers' Liskeard, Maritime Books

Hobbs, D. (2007) ‘Moving bases: Royal Navy Maintenance Carriers and MONABs' Liskeard, Maritime Books

Poolman, K. (1988) 'Allied Escort Carriers of World War Two in Action' London, Blandford Press

Poolman, K. (1972) 'Escort Carriers 1941 - 1945' Shepperton, Ian Allen Ltd.

Smith,P.C., (12001) ‘Task Force 57: The British Pacific Fleet, 1944 - 45’ Bristol, Crecy Books

Sturtivant, R. & Burrows, M. (1995) ‘Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945’ Tonbridge Wells, Air Britain (Historians)

Sturtivant, R & Balance, T., (1994) ‘Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm’ Tonbridge Wells, Air Britain (Historians)

Winton, J. (1969) ‘The forgotten Fleet’, London, Michael Joseph Ltd.

British officers (including Commonwealth officers serving in British units) Part of WWII Unit Histories and Officers web site.

Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies, 1922-present A comprehensive resource listing service details of men and women killed in RN and RM service.

Convoy Web A comprehensive resource listing WW2 convoys and ships .

War Sailors Ships in Atlantic and miscellaneous convoys during WW2.

 

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