HMS Rajah (D10)

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Career

Laid down:	17 December 1942
Launched:	18 May 1943
Commissioned (RN):	17 January 1944
Decommissioned:	7 February 1947
Fate:	merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1975
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,800 tons
Length:	492.25 ft (150 m)
Beam:	69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Extreme width:	111.5 ft (34.0 m)
Draft:	25.5 ft (7.8 m)
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement:	646 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns, 16 × twin 40 mm Bofors, 20 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft:	24

The USS Prince (CVE-45) (originally named McClure, designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort aircraft carrier laid down 17 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, Washington, renamed Prince 13 November 1942; launched 18 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan; reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943; and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease 17 October 1943.

Prince served the United Kingdom as HMS Rajah (D10). She was returned to the United States Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, 13 December 1946. Struck from the Naval Vessel Registry 7 February 1947, she was delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corp., 7 July, and became the merchant ship Drente (later renamed Lambros, then Ulysses) in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1975.