HMS Fencer (D64)
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| Career (USA) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Croatan |
| Laid down: | 5 September 1941 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1942 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy 27 February 1943 |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Stalker |
| Commissioned: | 27 February 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 December 1945 |
| Struck: | 28 January 1947 |
| Fate: | Sold as a merchant ship; scrapped 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 14,400 tons |
| Length: | 491 feet 6 inches (149.8 m) |
| Beam: | 105 feet (32 m) |
| Draught: | 26 feet (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 646 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 8 × 40 mm AA 20 × 20 mm guns AA |
| Aircraft carried: | 20 aircraft |
| Service record | |
| Part of | British Pacific Fleet (1944-45) |
| Operations | Battle of the Atlantic (1943-44) Operation Tungsten (1944) |
USS Croatan (CVE-14) (originally AVG-14 then ACV-14) was transferred to the United Kingdom on 27 February 1943 under lend-lease where she served as the HMS Fencer (D64). As an anti-submarine warfare carrier, Fencer escorted Atlantic, Russian and African convoys, even participating in a strike on the German battleship Tirpitz before being transferred to the Pacific. Following World War II, she returned to the United States 21 December 1946, stricken for disposal on 28 January 1947 and sold into merchant service 30 December as Sydney.
The ship went through a series of renamings, first to Roma in 1967, then Galaxy Queen in 1970, Lady Dina in 1972 and finally Caribia in 1973 before being scrapped in Spezia in September 1975.
[edit] References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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