RN Aircraft Carriers: Attacker Class 1942

[jbryce1437]

The Attacker Class was a class of 8 escort carriers supplied to the Royal Navy by the United States under the lend lease agreement. Ships in the class were Attacker, Battler, Chaser, Fencer, Hunter, Pursuer, Ravager, Stalker, Striker and Tracker. After the war they were returned to the USA when most of them were converted for merchant service, but three were scrapped.

Attacker

hms attacker at trincomalee ec.jpg

Battler

hms battler east ind fleet ec.jpg

Chaser

chaser 1.jpg

Fencer

fencer-(1944)-stb.qtr..jpg

Hunter

hms hunter 25 6 44 ec.jpg

Pursuer

hms pursuer fly past.jpg

Ravager

hms ravager as built ec.jpg

Stalker

hms stalker seafires ec.jpg

Striker

striker carrier.jpg

Tracker

hms tracker 1943 ec.jpg

[ivorthediver]

Well how wrong can you be , I make that fourteen types of RN Carriers Jim , god knows where you found all these , well done and thank you for all the effort and trouble you have taken

[Brian James]

Attacker-Class Escort Carrier HMS Battler pictured with Supermarine Seafires on her flight deck while she leads other Escort Carriers HMS Hunter, Attacker and Stalker off the Italian coast c1944.

[Brian James]

A view from Attacker Class Escort Carrier HMS Pursuer of other Escort Carriers led by HMS Attacker and HMS Khedive,(Command Ship) in the naval task force which took part in the landings in the south of France,August 7th 1944.

[Pelican]

STALKER MAKING WAVES EARLY ON

The Attacker class escort carrier HMS Stalker was originally named Hamlin. She was built by Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco, launched (as AVG-15) on 5 March 1942, and transferred to the Royal Navy on December 21, 1942.
The escort carrier played a vital part in allied operations in the Atlantic. She participated in the Salerno landings in September 1943, providing effective on the spot air support for assault forces.
Stalker also took part in the important landings in southern France in August 1944. From March to September 1945 she was attached to the 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron, East Indies Fleet.
Returned to the United States on December 29, 1945, she was struck from the Navy Register on March 20, 1946, and sold to Waterman Steamship Corp. of Mobile, Alabama, on December 18, 1946.
Waterman in turn sold her to the Netherlands in August 1947 where she was converted to the merchant ship Riouw. Later renamed Lobito in 1968, she was scrapped in Taiwan in September 1975.

[Pelican]

The Attacker Class was a class of 8 escort carriers supplied to the Royal Navy by the United States under the lend lease agreement. Ships in the class were Attacker, Battler, Chaser, Fencer, Hunter, Pursuer, Stalker, Striker and Tracker. After the war they were returned to the USA when most of them were converted for merchant service, but three were scrapped.

Attacker

hms attacker at trincomalee ec.jpg


Battler

hms battler east ind fleet ec.jpg


Chaser

chaser 1.jpg



Fencer

fencer-(1944)-stb.qtr..jpg


Hunter

hms hunter 25 6 44 ec.jpg


Pursuer

hms pursuer fly past.jpg


Stalker

hms stalker seafires ec.jpg


Striker

striker carrier.jpg


Tracker

hms tracker 1943 ec.jpg

Ravager not mentioned above Jim but she seems to fit the bill:

https://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.or ... AVAGER.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ravager_(D70)

[jbryce1437]

The Attacker Class was a class of 8 escort carriers supplied to the Royal Navy by the United States under the lend lease agreement. Ships in the class were Attacker, Battler, Chaser, Fencer, Hunter, Pursuer, Stalker, Striker and Tracker. After the war they were returned to the USA when most of them were converted for merchant service, but three were scrapped.

Attacker

hms attacker at trincomalee ec.jpg


Battler

hms battler east ind fleet ec.jpg


Chaser

chaser 1.jpg



Fencer

fencer-(1944)-stb.qtr..jpg


Hunter

hms hunter 25 6 44 ec.jpg


Pursuer

hms pursuer fly past.jpg


Stalker

hms stalker seafires ec.jpg


Striker

striker carrier.jpg


Tracker

hms tracker 1943 ec.jpg

Ravager not mentioned above Jim but she seems to fit the bill:

https://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.or ... AVAGER.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ravager_(D70)

Many thanks David, I had mistakenly had her as Ruler Class, but have corrected both threads now.

Jim

[ivorthediver]

STALKER MAKING WAVES EARLY ON

The Attacker class escort carrier HMS Stalker was originally named Hamlin. She was built by Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco, launched (as AVG-15) on 5 March 1942, and transferred to the Royal Navy on December 21, 1942.
The escort carrier played a vital part in allied operations in the Atlantic. She participated in the Salerno landings in September 1943, providing effective on the spot air support for assault forces.
Stalker also took part in the important landings in southern France in August 1944. From March to September 1945 she was attached to the 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron, East Indies Fleet.
Returned to the United States on December 29, 1945, she was struck from the Navy Register on March 20, 1946, and sold to Waterman Steamship Corp. of Mobile, Alabama, on December 18, 1946.
Waterman in turn sold her to the Netherlands in August 1947 where she was converted to the merchant ship Riouw. Later renamed Lobito in 1968, she was scrapped in Taiwan in September 1975.

That looks like a very narrow stretch of water in which to launch a carrier that size [ even tethered as she was] , but no doubt used previously with confidence