HMS Slinger (D26)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Chatham |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 25 May 1942 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Atheling |
| Commissioned: | 11 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 April 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship, scrapped 1969-1970 |
| 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: | 26 feet 3 inches (8.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 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 Chatham (CVE-32) (originally designated AVG-32, then later ACV-32) was built at the Seattle-Tacoma S/Y, Hull #27, Seattle WA and transferred to the United Kingdom 11 August 1943 under lend-lease and renamed HMS Slinger (D26). Outfitted by the British as a transport carrier, the ship was mined on 5 February 1944 but returned to service, 17 October. In 1945, she was transferred for service in the Pacific as a fighter carrier. Following the war, she was returned to United States custody on 27 February 1946 and was sold/converted by Robin Line 21 November 1946 as Robin Mowbray. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc purchased Robin Line in 1958. She was scrapped in Kaohsiung Taiwan in 1969-1970.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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