Royal Navy — Escort carrier class
Avenger-class escort carrier
Avenger class
The class in numbers
- 4 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Escort carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1941–1942
- Preceded by
- Long Island-class escort carrier
- Succeeded by
- Attacker-class escort carrier (RN), Bogue-class escort carrier (USN)
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Sun Shipbuilding Company
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 8,200 long tons (8,332 t)
- Length
- 150.04 m (492.3 ft)
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Complement
- 555
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
- Armament
- 3 × 4-inch DP anti-aircraft guns in single mounts
- 15 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons in single or twin mounts
Roster
Holding 3 of the 4 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 Avenger (D14) | D14 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Biter (D97) | D97 | 1942 | Target 1966 |
| HMS Dasher (D37) | D37 | 1942 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Avenger-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.