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HMS Rajah (D10) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HMS Rajah (D10)

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HMS Rajah
Career (USA) United States Navy ensign
Name: USS Prince
Builder: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down: 17 December 1942
Launched: 18 May 1943
Fate: Transferred to Royal Navy
Career (UK) RN Ensign
Name: HMS Rajah
Commissioned: 17 January 1944
Decommissioned: 7 February 1947
Fate: Sold as merchant ship; sold for scrap 1975
General characteristics
Class and type: Bogue class escort carrier
Displacement: 9,800 tons
Length: 495 feet 7 inches (151.1 m)
Beam: 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 m)
Draught: 25 feet 6 inches (7.8 m)
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
Speed: 17 knots (31 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: 24

The USS Prince (CVE-45) (originally named McClure, designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort aircraft carrier laid down 17 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington, renamed Prince 13 November 1942; launched 18 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan; reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943; and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease 17 October 1943.

Prince served the United Kingdom as HMS Rajah (D10). She was returned to the United States Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, 13 December 1946. Struck from the Naval Vessel Registry 7 February 1947, she was delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corporation, 7 July, and became the merchant ship Drente (later renamed Lambros, then Ulysses) in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1975.

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