Aircraft carrier class
Bogue-class escort carrier
Bogue class
The class in numbers
- 45 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Aircraft carrier
- Navies
- Royal Navy 7
United States Navy 7 - In commission
- 1942–1947
- Preceded by
- Long Island-class escort carrier
- Succeeded by
- Sangamon-class escort carrier
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Western Pipe & Steel
- Subclasses
- Attacker-class escort carrier, Ruler-class escort carrier (Ameer class), USS Prince William (CVE-31) class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 8,385 long tons (8,520 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 13,976 long tons (14,200 t)
- Length
- 150.88 m (495 ft) OA
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Complement
- 890
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As designed:
- 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 caliber
- 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
- Varied, ultimate armament:
- 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal dual-purpose gun (DP)
- 8 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- 20 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Roster
Holding 14 of the 45 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 Attacker (D02) | D02 | 1942 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Battler | AVG-6 | 1942 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Chaser | AVG-10 | 1943 | 1946 |
| HMS Fencer | AVG-14 | 1943 | 1947 |
| HMS Patroller | D07 | 1943 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Ravager (D70) | D70 | 1943 | Scrapped 1973 |
| HMS Reaper | D82 | 1944 | Scrapped 1967 |
| HMS Searcher (D40) | D40 | 1943 | Scrapped 1976 |
| HMS Shah (D21) | D21 | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Slinger (D26) | D26 | 1943 | Scrapped 1969 |
| HMS Smiter (D55) | D55 | 1944 | Wrecked 1967 |
| HMS Speaker (D90) | D90 | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 |
| HMS Trouncer (D85) | D85 | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 |
| HMS Trumpeter (D09) | D09 | 1943 | Scrapped 1971 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bogue-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.