United States Navy — Escort carrier class
Attacker-class escort carrier
Attacker class
The class in numbers
- 11 Planned
- 11 Completed
- 3 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Escort carrier
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1941–1943
- In commission
- 1942–1946
- Preceded by
- Avenger-class escort carrier
- Succeeded by
- Ruler-class escort carrier
- Operators
- Royal Navy
- Builders
- 4 at Ingalls Shipbuilding
- 4 at Western Pipe & Steel
- 3 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 10,200 long tons (10,364 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 14,400 long tons (14,631 t)
- Length
- 151.18 m (496 ft) OA
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Complement
- 646
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 4 in/50 caliber guns in single mounts
- 8 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in twin mounts
- 21 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons in single and twin mounts
Roster
Holding 5 of the 11 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Hunter (D80) | D80 | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 |
| HMS Pursuer (D73) | D73 | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Stalker (D91) | D91 | 1942 | Scrapped 1975 |
| HMS Striker (D12) | D12 | 1943 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Tracker (D24) | D24 | 1943 | Scrapped 1964 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Attacker-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.