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HMS Trumpeter (D09)
1943 Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier
1943 Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| section1 | {{Infobox ship/image |
| image | HMS Trumpeter.jpg |
| image_caption | HMS Trumpeter |
| section2 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| country | United States |
| flag | |
| name | USS Bastian |
| namesake | Bastian Bay, Louisiana |
| builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| laid_down | 25 August 1942 |
| launched | 15 December 1942 |
| fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
| section3 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| hide_header | title |
| country | United Kingdom |
| flag | |
| name | HMS Trumpeter |
| commissioned | 4 August 1943 |
| decommissioned | 19 June 1946 |
| identification | Pennant number:D09 |
| fate | Sold as merchant ship; scrapped in 1971 |
| section4 | {{Infobox ship/characteristics |
| class | * (USA) |
| displacement | 7,800 tons |
| length | 495 ft |
| beam | 69 ft |
| draught | 26 ft |
| propulsion | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| speed | 18.5 kn |
| complement | 890 officers and men |
| armament | *2 × 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 guns |
| aircraft | 28 |
| section5 | {{Infobox ship/service record |
- (UK)
- 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors
- 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
USS Bastian (CVE-37) (originally AVG-37 and then ACV-37) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier built by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington, laid down on 25 August 1942 and launched 15 December 1942. She was transferred to the United Kingdom, under Lend-Lease and commissioned on 4 August 1943 as the Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Trumpeter (D09).
On 4 May 1945 aircraft of 846 Naval Air Squadron flew from Trumpeter to take part in Operation Judgement, an attack on the U-boat depot at Kilbotn, Norway, contributing eight Grumman Avengers and four Grumman Wildcats to a 44-aircraft attack that destroyed several vessels including the depot ship "Black Watch" and U-711.
Trumpeter was returned to United States' custody 6 April 1946, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 19 June 1946 and sold into merchant service as Alblasserdijk (later renamed Irene Valmas). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1971.
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
- 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
- Cocker (2008), p.79.
- Cocker (2008), p.82.
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