United States Navy — Escort carrier class
Ruler-class escort carrier
Ruler class
The class in numbers
- 23 Planned
- 23 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Escort carrier
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1942–1943
- Preceded by
- Attacker-class escort carrier
- Succeeded by
- None
- Builders
- 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
- 11,420 long tons (11,603 t)
- Length
- 149.96 m (492 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Complement
- 646
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 4-inch DP, AA guns in single mounts
- 16 × Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun in twin mounts
- 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons in single mounts
Roster
Holding 1 of the 23 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 Puncher (D79) | D79 | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Ruler-class escort carrier on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.