HMS Queen (D19)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS St. Andrews |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 12 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 2 August 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Queen |
| Commissioned: | 7 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1947 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship; scrapped 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 8,333 tons |
| Length: | 496 feet (151 m) |
| Beam: | 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 m) |
| Draught: | 23 feet 3 inches (7.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Complement: | 646 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 |
The USS St. Andrews (CVE-49) (originally AVG-49, later ACV-49) was assigned to MC hull 260 on 23 August 1942, a ship to be built to modified C3-S-A1 plans. She was laid down on 12 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington; redesignated CVE-49 on 15 July; and launched on 31 July; sponsored by Mrs. Robert W. Morse; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 7 December; and commissioned the same day as HMS Queen (D19) in the Royal Navy.
HMS Queen served British and Allied escort forces in protecting the vital convoy supply effort across the North Atlantic in 1944, and in the Pacific campaigns in 1945. After hostilities ceased, she was converted to a troop carrier and used to bring British forces back from the Far East, before being returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, 31 October 1946.
On arrival, Queen was decommissioned by the Royal Navy and was taken over by the U.S. Navy. In excess of Navy needs, CVE-49 was slated, in December, for disposal; struck from the Navy Register in July 1947, sold to the N.V. Stoomv, Maats, Nederland Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands and pressed into merchant service as Roebiah on 29 July 1947 (renamed President Marcos in 1967 and Lucky One in 1972). She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.
[edit] References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- History of HMS Queen by David Weaver
[edit] External links
- Retired CIP brings aircraft carrier back to life An article about David Weaver's detailed book History of HMS Queen
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