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HMS Queen (D19)

American escort carrier transferred to the Royal Navy


Summary

American escort carrier transferred to the Royal Navy

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image_captionHMS Queen
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countryUnited States
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nameUSS St. Andrews
namesakeSt. Andrews Bay in Florida
builderSeattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
laid_down12 March 1943
launched2 August 1943
fateTransferred to Royal Navy
section3{{Infobox ship/career
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countryUnited Kingdom
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nameHMS Queen
commissioned7 December 1943
decommissionedJuly 1947
identificationPennant number:D19
fateSold as merchant ship; scrapped 1972
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class* (USA)
displacement8,333 tons
length496 ft
beam69 ft
draught23 ft
propulsionSteam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
speed17 kn
complement646 officers and men
armament*2 × 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 guns
aircraft18–24
  • (UK)
  • 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors
  • 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon The USS St. Andrews (CVE-49) (originally AVG-49, later ACV-49) was assigned to MC hull 260 on 23 August 1942, a ship to be built to modified C3-S-A1 plans. She was laid down on 12 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington; redesignated CVE-49 on 15 July; and launched on 31 July; sponsored by Mrs. Robert W. Morse; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 7 December; and commissioned the same day as HMS Queen (D19) in the Royal Navy.

HMS Queen served British and Allied escort forces in protecting the vital convoy supply effort across the North Atlantic in 1944, and in the Pacific campaigns in 1945. On 4 May 1945 aircraft of Queens 853 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, took part in Operation Judgement, the last air-raid of the European war, at Kilbotn, Norway. After hostilities ceased, she was converted to a troop carrier and used to bring British forces back from the Far East, before being returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, 31 October 1946.

On arrival, Queen was decommissioned by the Royal Navy and was taken over by the U.S. Navy. In excess of Navy needs, CVE-49 was slated, in December, for disposal; struck from the Navy Register in July 1947, sold to the N.V. Stoomv, Maats, Nederland Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands and pressed into merchant service as Roebiah on 29 July 1947 (renamed President Marcos in 1967 and Lucky One in 1972). She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.

Design and description

These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers. They were also all laid down as escort carriers and not converted merchant ships. Propulsion was provided a steam turbine, two boilers connected to one shaft giving 9,350 brake horsepower (SHP), which could propel the ship at 16.5 kn.

Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge–flight control on the starboard side, two aircraft lifts 43 ft by 34 ft, one aircraft catapult and nine arrestor wires. Aircraft could be housed in the 260 ft by 62 ft hangar below the flight deck. Armament comprised: two 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 Dual Purpose guns in single mounts, sixteen 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns in twin mounts and twenty 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons in single mounts. They had a maximum aircraft capacity of twenty-four aircraft which could be a mixture of Grumman Martlet, Vought F4U Corsair or Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft and Fairey Swordfish or Grumman Avenger anti-submarine aircraft.

Notes

References

  • ''The Attack on 'Black Watch''' (Harald Isachsen, Harstad, 2009, – in Norwegian)

References

  1. All the ships had a complement of 646 men and an [[Length overall. overall length]] of {{convert. 492. ft. 3. in. 1, a [[Beam (nautical). beam]] of {{convert. 69. ft. 6. in. 1 and a draught of {{Convert. 25. ft. 6. in. m. 1
  2. Cocker (2008), p.79.
  3. Cocker (2008), p.82.
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