HMS Nabob (D77)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Edisto |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 20 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 March 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
| Career (UK) |   |
| Name: | HMS Nabob |
| Commissioned: | 7 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1944 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship; for scrap 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 15,390 tons (full) |
| Length: | 495 feet 7 inches (151.1 m) |
| Beam: | 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 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: | 1,000 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried: | 18-24 Fairey Barracuda, F4F Wildcat |
| Service record | |
| Operations | Operation Goodwood III |
HMS Nabob (D77) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States as USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) but did not serve with the United States Navy.
She was laid down on 20 October 1942, launched 22 March 1943, and transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom on 7 September 1943 prior to her commissioning as HMS Nabob (D77) into the Royal Navy. She served as an anti-submarine warfare carrier and was manned by personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy.
On 22 August 1944, while returning from a strike against the German battleship Tirpitz (Operation Goodwood), she was torpedoed by U-354 in the Barents Sea and sustained heavy damage. Five days later she steamed into Scapa Flow under her own power but had lost 21 men.
She was eventually judged not worth repairing, was beached and abandoned then cannibalized for other ships and decommissioned on 30 September 1944. She was returned to United States custody and sold into merchant service 26 October 1946 as the merchant Nabob (later renamed Glory). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1977.
Nabob is one of three Royal Navy escort carriers built in the United States which is listed as lost in action during World War II.
[edit] See also
- List of aircraft carriers
- List of ship launches in 1943
- List of ship commissionings in 1943
- List of ship decommissionings in 1944
[edit] References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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