HMS Khedive (D62)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Cordova |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 30 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 30 January 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Khedive |
| Commissioned: | 25 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 July 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship; for scrap 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 16,620 tons (full) |
| Length: | 495 feet 7 inches (151.1 m) |
| Beam: | 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 m) |
| Draught: | 26 feet (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 646 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried: | 18-24 |
The USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an escort aircraft carrier launched 27 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell. Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, Cordova was transferred to the Royal Navy on 25 August 1943, as HMS Khedive (D62). She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as Rempang (later Daphne). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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