HMS Trumpeter (D09)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Bastian |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 25 August 1942 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1942 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Trumpeter |
| Commissioned: | 4 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 June 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship; scrapped in 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 7,800 tons |
| 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: | 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h) |
| Complement: | 890 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried: | 28 |
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The USS Bastian (CVE-37) (originally AVG-37 and then ACV-37) was an escort aircraft carrier built by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington, laid down on 25 August 1942 and launched 15 December 1942. She was transferred to the United Kingdom, under Lend-Lease and commissioned on 4 August 1943 as HMS Trumpeter (D09).
On 4 May 1945 aircraft of 846 Naval Air Squadron flew from Trumpeter to take part in an attack on the U-boat depot at Kilbotn, Norway, contributing eight Avengers and four Wildcats to a 44-aircraft attack that destroyed several vessels including the depot ship "Black Watch" and U-711.
Trumpeter was returned to United States' custody 6 April 1946, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 19 June 1946 and sold into merchant service as the Alblasserdijk (later renamed Irene Valmas). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1971.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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