HMS Speaker (D90)

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Career

Laid down:	9 October 1942
Launched:	20 February 1943
Commissioned (RN):	20 November 1943
Decommissioned:	25 September 1946
Fate:	merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1972
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,333 tons
Length:	496 ft (151.2 m)
Beam:	69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Draft:	23.25 ft (7.1 m)
Speed:	18 knots
Complement:	646 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 5 inch guns, 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors, 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft:	18-24

The HMS Speaker (D90), a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier, was originally the USS Delgada (AVG/ACV/CVE-40) which was transferred to the [[United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease program.

Delgada was launched 20 February 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. James B. Sykes and reclassified CVE-40 on 15 July 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 20 November 1943, and served as HMS Speaker (D90). She was returned to the United States on 27 July 1946 and sold into merchant service 22 April 1947 as Lancero (later renamed President Osmena in 1965 and Lucky One in 1971). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1972.