Royal Navy — Escort carrier class
Long Island-class escort carrier
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Escort carrier
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Preceded by
- N/A
- Succeeded by
- Bogue-class escort carrier
- Operators
- United States
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Length
- 149.96 m (492 ft) OA
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Complement
- 856
Roster
Holding 1 of the 2 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 Archer (D78) | D78 | 1941 | Scrapped 1962 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Long Island-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.