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Bogue class Escort carrier
USS Bogue (CVE-9)
Class overview
Type:	Escort carrier
Name:	Bogue class
Builders:	(1) Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding (2) Ingalls Shipbuilding (3) Western Pipe & Steel
Operators:	Royal Navy, US Navy
Preceded by:	Sangamon class
Succeeded by:	Casablanca class
Commissioned:	1942-1944
Decommissioned:	1946
Ships in class:	45
Ships scrapped:	45
General characteristics
Displacement:	16,620 tons
Length:	496 ft (151 m) flight deck: 480 ft (146 m)
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) flight deck: 70 ft (21.3 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion and power:	2 x boilers and 2 x geared turbines driving 1 shaft at 8500 shp
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	646, excluding Air Group
Armament:	2 × 4" L/50 anti-aircraft (1 twin mounting) 8 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft (4 twin mountings) 10-35 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft
Aircraft carried:	19 to 24 (typical complement: 12 fighters (Grumman F4F Wildcats) & 9 torpedo planes (Grumman TBF Avengers)) Supermarine Seafires and Fairey Swordfish in RN service.

The Bogue class were a group of escort aircraft carriers built in the United States for service with the US Navy and (under lend-lease) the Royal Navy during World War II.

The Bogue class escort carriers were based on the Maritime Commission's Type C3 cargo ship hull. Most were built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, but some of the early examples were produced by Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi and by the Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco, California. They all were named for sounds, and were equipped with derricks for retrieving seaplanes.

Most of the ships of the class were transferred to the Royal Navy under the provisions of the Lend-Lease program; they were given new names for their RN service and returned to the U.S. Navy after the war. The first group to be transferred were known by the RN as the Attacker class; in their place replacements were constructed with the same names for the American fleet. A second group of ships were built and sent almost in its entirety to the Royal Navy, known as the Ameer class or the Ruler class in British service, and sometimes as the Prince William class in the U.S. Navy.

As delivered, these carriers required modifications to conform to Royal Naval standards and, for some ships, the initial works were done at Burrards at Vancouver, Canada. These included extending the flight deck, fitting redesigned Rying controls and fighter direction layout, modifications to hangar, accommodation and store rooms, extra safety measures, oiling at sea arrangements, gunnery and other internal communications, extra wireless and radio facilities, ship black-out arrangements and other items deemed necessary for British service.

The consequential delays in getting these ships into active service caused critical comments from some in the U.S. Navy.

• USS Altamaha (CVE-6) became HMS Battler (D18)
• USS Altamaha (CVE-18)
• USS Barnes (CVE-7) became HMS Attacker (D02)
• USS Barnes (CVE-20)
• USS Block Island (CVE-8) became HMS Hunter (D80)
• USS Block Island (CVE-21) was sunk by the German U-549 northeast of the Canary Islands on 29 May 1944.
• USS Bogue (CVE-9)
• USS Breton (CVE-10) became HMS Chaser (D32)
• USS Breton (CVE-23)
• USS Card (CVE-11)
• USS Copahee (CVE-12)
• USS Core (CVE-13)
• USS Croatan (CVE-14) became HMS Fencer (D64)
• USS Croatan (CVE-25)
• USS Hamlin (CVE-15) became HMS Stalker (D91)
• USS Nassau (CVE-16)
• USS Prince William (CVE-19) became HMS Striker (D12)
• USS St. George (CVE-17) became HMS Pursuer (D73)
• HMS Ravager (D70)
• HMS Searcher (D40)
• HMS Tracker (D24)

General characteristics as for Attacker class, except for displacement and armament.

• USS Baffins (CVE-35) became HMS Ameer (D01)
• USS Bastian (CVE-37) became HMS Trumpeter (D09)
• USS Bolinas (CVE-36) became HMS Begum (D38)
• USS Carnegie (CVE-38) became HMS Empress (D42)
• USS Chatham (CVE-32) became HMS Slinger (D26)
• USS Cordova (CVE-39) became HMS Khedive (D62)
• USS Delgada (CVE-40) became HMS Speaker (D90)
• USS Edisto (CVE-41) became HMS Nabob (D77)
• USS Estero (CVE-42) became HMS Premier (D23)
• USS Glacier (CVE-33) became HMS Atheling (D51)
• USS Jamaica (CVE-43) became HMS Shah (D21)
• USS Keweenaw (CVE-44) became HMS Patroller (D07)
• USS Niantic (CVE-46) became HMS Ranee (D03)
• USS Perdido (CVE-47) became HMS Trouncer (D85)
• USS Prince (CVE-45) became HMS Rajah (D10)
• USS Prince William (CVE-31)
• USS Pybus (CVE-34) became HMS Emperor (D98)
• USS St. Andrews (CVE-49) became HMS Queen (D19)
• USS St. Joseph (CVE-50) became HMS Ruler (D72)
• USS St. Simon (CVE-51) became HMS Arbiter (D31)
• USS Sunset (CVE-48) became HMS Thane (D48)
• USS Vermillion (CVE-52) became HMS Smiter (D55)
• USS Willapa (CVE-53) became HMS Puncher (D79)
• USS Winjah (CVE-54) became HMS Reaper (D82)

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