HMS Trouncer (D85)

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Career

Laid down:	1 February 1943
Launched:	17 June 1943
Commissioned (RN):	31 January 1944
Decommissioned:	12 April 1946
Fate:	merchant ship
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,800 tons
Length:	495 ft 8 in (151.1 m)
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.2 m)
Extreme width:	111 ft 6 in (34 m)
Draft:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed:	18 knots
Complement:	890 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 5 inch guns, 8 × twin Bofors 40 mm gun, 27 × single Oerlikon 20 mm guns
Aircraft:	28

The USS Perdido (CVE-47) (previously AVG-47, later ACV-47) was laid down as ACV-47 under Maritime Commission contract by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington, 1 February 1943; launched 16 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. H. M. Bemis, reclassified as CVE-47 on 15 July 1943; and completed at the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon.

Assigned to the United Kingdom under lend lease 23 June 1943, Perdido was taken over by the Royal Navy at Portland, 31 January 1944. During the remainder of World War II, she served the Royal Navy as HMS Trouncer (D85) and took part in convoy escort and ASW patrol operations. The escort carrier returned to Norfolk, Virginia, 21 February 1946. Perdido was returned to the U.S. Navy 3 March 1946, and on 25 March, the Secretary of the Navy authorized her for disposal. Her name was struck from the Naval Register 12 April 1946. She was sold to William B. St. John, delivered to her purchaser 6 March 1947 and pressed into merchant service as Greystroke Castle (renamed Gallic in 1954 and Berinnes in 1959). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1973.