RN Aircraft Carriers: Ruler Class 1943

[jbryce1437]

All 24 ships of the Ruler Class were built in the USA as Bogue Class aircraft carriers and supplied under the Lend-lease Agreement. They were built to take part in three types of operations - Strike, Escort or Aircraft Ferry.
Ships in the class were built in two groups, the first group comprised:
HMS Patroller, HMS Puncher(crewed by the Royal Canadian Navy), HMS Reaper, HMS Searcher, HMS Slinger, HMS Smiter, HMS Speaker, HMS Trouncer, HMS Trumpeter.
The second group comprised HMS Arbiter, HMS Ameer, HMS Atheling, HMS Begum, HMS Emperor, HMS Empress, HMS Khedive, HMS Nabob (crewed by the Royal Canadian Navy), HMS Premier, HMS Queen, HMS Rajah, HMS Ranee, HMS Ruler, HMS Shah and HMS Thane.
Two of the class were lost to torpedo attack; HMS Nabob in August 1944 and HMS Thane in January 1945 while in the Clyde estuary.
All were returned to the USA in 1946 and 1947. Some were scrapped and others converted back to Merchant ships.

Ameer

ameer-and-raider.jpg

Arbiter

arbiter and sunderland flying boat reshade.jpg

Atheling

atheling 2.jpg

Begum

hms begum.jpg

Emperor

hms emperor & ceylon & richelieu ec.jpg

Empress

hms empress anchored ec.jpg

Khedive

hms khedive,entering malta,undated.jpg

Nabob

hms nabob after being torpedoed 22 august 1944[1].jpg

Patroller

hms patroller malta as troopship 1946 ec.jpg

Premier

hms premier ferrying corsairs ec.jpg

Puncher

hms puncher kola.jpg

Queen

queen (1945) pt.qtr. ply.jpg

Rajah

hms rajah.jpg

Ranee

ranee-1945.jpg

Reaper

AA oo REAPER.jpg

Ruler

HMS%20RULER-D72-8-1943-1946-45NTZ-SYDNEY[2].jpg

Searcher

hms searcher & wildcats ec.jpg

Shah

shah-(1943)-stb.bow ply.jpg

Slinger

slinger44 1943.jpg

Smiter

hms smiter 1944.jpg

Speaker

hms speaker leaving tokyo bay.jpg

Thane

thane.jpg

Trouncer

hms trouncer as built ec.jpg

Trumpeter

hms trumpeter wildcat landing ec.jpg

[ivorthediver]

Thank you for these and the other countless class of Aircraft carriers I never even knew about Jim .

I can't think of anyone else currently on this forum who has dedicated their knowledge, time effort to educating us of the diversity of carriers used in the last World War......again my thanks

[Pelican]

HMS NABOB

The damaged HMS Nabob D77 proceeding homewards under her own steam, her stern low down in the water. She was hit by a torpedo during an operation in northern waters by a German submarine U-354. Despite her damaged condition, NABOB turned homeward with a mixed Canadian and British crew and reached her base after sailing 1070 miles at a steady ten knots.
August 1944
This is photograph from the collections of the Imperial War Museums
Au Hudson, F A (Lt) Royal Navy official photograph

[Brian James]

Ruler Class (USN designation Bogue Class),Escort Carrier HMS Atherling pictured at Port Melbourne in December 1945.

[Pelican]

HMS NABOB taken from HMS PUNCHER (foreground) at Vancouver while both escort carriers were completing in February 1943.

Roger Litwiller - Canadian Naval Author/Historian #RCNavy Photo Collection.
See http://ow.ly/Kba650JZ9pk

[Pelican]

HMS PATROLLER - No other details

[jbryce1437]

HMS PATROLLER - No other details

Photo was taken in 1946 when she was in use as a troopship. I have added another couple of HMS Patroller.

Jim

hms patroller malta as troopship 1946 ec.jpg

hms patroller with oiler ec.jpg

[Brian James]

Bogue Class Escort Carrier HMS Reaper pictured at Auckland in November 1945.....She was deployed with the BPF until November 1945, then was used for transport of POWs and civilians imprisoned by the Japanese between Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

[Pelican]

OTD 22/8/1944 Remember RCN - HMS NABOB torpedoed by U354, in Barents Sea, killing 21 sailors.

Effective damage control by her Canadian ship's company saves the escort aircraft carrier. In a historic display of seamanship she steams to Scapa Flow under her own power.
Photos at - https://twitter.com/RLitwiller/status/1 ... 93/photo/1

HM8B65~1.JPG

[Brian James]

Launch day pictured for Bogue Class Escort Carrier USS Sunset at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Yards, Tacoma on July 15th 1943. She was transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease agreement on November 19th; and commissioned the same day as HMS Thane (D48), a Ruler-Class RN Escort Carrier.
HMS Thane operated in the North Atlantic protecting convoys and ferrying aircraft for use in the European Theater. On January 15th 1945, while ferrying aircraft in the Irish Sea, she was torpedoed by the Type VIIC/41 Submarine U-1172 and severely damaged, losing her starboard aft 5 inch gun and its sponson, disabling propulsion, and losing 10 men. Taken to Gare Loch in the Firth of Clyde, southwest Scotland, she was examined, declared a constructive total loss and decommissioned to reserve. She was returned to United States custody while in the UK on May 12th. Determined to be of no use to the USN, she was slated for disposal in October; and was subsequently scrapped.