HMS Speaker (D90)
Service
- as HMS Speaker20 November 1943 — 25 September 1946652 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Speaker
- Pennant / hull number
- D90
- Builder
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
- Laid down
- 9 October 1942
- Launched
- 20 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 20 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 25 September 1946
- Fate
- Merchant ship; sold for scrap 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 8,333 long tons (8,467 t)
- Length
- 151.18 m (496 ft)
- Beam
- 21.03 m (69 ft)
- Draught
- 7.01 m (23 ft)
- Speed
- 18 knots (33.3 km/h, 20.7 mph)
- Complement
- 646
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
HMS Speaker was a escort carrier of the Bogue-class escort carrier (USA) in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number D90. Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation laid her keel on 9 October 1942. She entered service on 20 November 1943, having been launched on 20 February 1943.
14 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Long Island-class escort carrier and was succeeded by the Sangamon-class escort carrier.
Displacement was 8,333 long tons. She measured 151.2 m (496 ft) long with a beam of 21.0 m (69 ft). Her designed speed was 18 knots, and she carried a complement of 646. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She carried 18 aircraft.
She was in commission for 652 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 September 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 2 × 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 guns
- 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors
- 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
- Aircraft
- 18-24
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Speaker (D90) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Photographer not identified. US Navy. — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. 8 February 2007 (original upload date) Original uploader was Rickdrew at en.wikipedia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons