HMS Attacker (D02)

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Career

Laid down:	17 April 1941
Launched:	27 September 1942
Commissioned (USN):	30 September 1942
Decommissioned (USN):	1946?
Commissioned (RN):	30 September 1942
Decommissioned (RN):	5 January 1946
Struck:	26 February 1946
Fate:	Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1980
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,400 tons
Length:	491 ft 6 in (150 m)
Beam:	105 ft (32 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion:	Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	646 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 × 4 in (102 mm), 8 × 40 mm, 20 × 20 mm guns
Aircraft:	20
Motto:

The USS Barnes (CVE-7) (originally AVG then ACV) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier that served during World War II.

She was laid down on 17 April 1941 as Steel Artisan (hull 160) under Maritime Commission contract by Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California. She was commissioned by the United States Navy on 30 September 1942 and simultaneously transferred via the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom. That same day, the ship was renamed HMS Attacker (D02) and commissioned by the Royal Navy. The vessel was returned to the United States’ custody 5 January 1946 and sold into merchant service on 28 October 1946 as Castel Forte.

The ship was renamed Fairsky in 1958 and hit a submerged wreck on 23 June 1977 and was beached to prevent sinking. Six days later, the ship was refloated.

In 1978, the ship began conversion to the floating hotel Philippine Tourist but was destroyed by fire on 3 November 1979 and subsequently scrapped in Hong Kong on 24 May 1980.