HMS Trumpeter (D09)

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Career United States Navy Jack Royal Navy Ensign
Laid down: 25 August 1942
Launched: 15 December 1942
Commissioned (RN): 4 August 1943
Decommissioned: 19 June 1946
Fate: merchant ship, scrapped, 1971
General Characteristics
Displacement: 7,800 tons
Length: 495.66 ft (151 m)
Beam: 69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Draught: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed: 17.5 knots (32 km/h)
Complement: 890 officers and men
Armament: 2 × 5 inch (127 mm) guns, 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors, 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft: 28

The USS Bastian (CVE-37) (originally AVG-37 and then ACV-37) was an escort aircraft carrier built by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington, laid down on 25 August 1942 and launched 15 December 1942. She was transferred to the United Kingdom, under Lend-Lease and commissioned on 4 August 1943 as HMS Trumpeter (D09). The vessel was returned to United States' custody 6 April 1946, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 19 June 1946 and sold into merchant service as the Alblasserdijk (later renamed Irene Valmas). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1971.

[edit] See also

  • See USS Bastian and HMS Trumpeter for other ships of these names.

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Bogue-class escort carrier
Royal Navy
Battler | Attacker | Hunter | Chaser | Fencer | Stalker | Pursuer | Striker | Searcher | Ravager | Tracker | Slinger | Atheling | Emperor | Ameer | Begum | Trumpeter | Empress | Khedive | Speaker | Nabob | Premier | Shah | Patroller | Rajah | Ranee | Trouncer | Thane | Queen | Ruler | Arbiter | Smiter | Puncher | Reaper
United States Navy
Bogue | Card | Copahee | Core | Nassau | Altamaha | Barnes | Block Island | Breton | Croatan | Prince William

List of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy