MC ANDREWS, and MEXICO, and the oiler USS MATTAPONI, escorted by Force 64 consisting of US ships BRISTOL, BROOKLYN, BUCK, EDISON, LUDLOW, NEVA YORK, NICHOLSON, ROE, SWANSON, WILKES, and WOOLSEY, entered harbour. STALKER in company with the United States Army troopships JOHN ERICSON, MONTEREY, SANTA ROSA, merchant ships EVANGALINE, J. The convoy, comprising of 21 merchantmen and 12 escorts, was to take the southern trans-Atlantic route, splitting into a Mediterranean section and a Casablanca section at 07:00 on the morning of March 18th while off the Moroccan coast, HUNTER and She sailed for New York at 08:20 on March 3rd to rendezvous with her sister escort carrier STALKER, also transporting the same ferry load, and to sail on March 5th as part of convoy UGF-6 for Casablanca.įerry trip Norfolk to Casablanca March 1943 On completion of her dockyard work she moved to the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk to embark a ferry load of non-operational US Army Force fighter aircraft, stores and personnel. Mooring at pier #5 at Norfolk Naval Operating Base on February 26th.
VICTORIOUS on February 3rd and 882 with 12 Martlet IVs, embarking in VICTORIOUS on February 1st., The only RN squadrons at USNAS Norfolk when HUNTER arrived were 832 squadron having exchanged 12 Albacores for 12 Avenger TBM 1s embarking in On February 18th she departed Norfolk Navy Yard for post modification shake-down in Chesapeake Bay It is assumed that the ship undertook flying training during the nine-day period after leaving the dockyard Admiralty signal traffic concerning her departure from Gibraltar on March 28th supports this assumption, when a temporary squadron was assembled for anti-submarine cover on passage to the UK, stating that the ship had ‘full and trained personnel for operations and has completed flying trials’. She was docked and undocked for the Installation of Asdic and NMB Echo Sounding equipment. This work also included the installation of radio equipment, including TBS-3 and TCS-1, catapult testing, and fitting of towing irons. On Arrival at Norfolk Navy Yard at 11:45 on February 1st she was taken in hand to complete fitting out. Island superstructure at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp The officers of HMS HUNTER pose in front of the The name of the 'H' class destroyer HMS 'HUNTER'). To become HMS 'TRAILER' but this was changed in order to continue Was the sixteenth RN ship to bear the name. Number D80), under the command of Captain H. Royal Navy at Pascagoula on January 11th 943 as HMS HUNTER (pennant The US Navy in Pascagoula on January 9th 1943. Transfer to RN, commissioning and sea trials: January 1943īuild was completed on December 31st 1942 and she was delivered to In line with US Navy policy she was redesignated ACV-8, August 20th 1942. The hull was requisitioned for, and later purchased by, the US navy for conversion to an Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier the ship name USS BLOCK ISLAND, AVG-8, was promulgated but was cancelled on March 17th 1942 when it was decided that AVG-8 was to be transferred to the Admiralty on loan under Lend/Lease arrangements.
Pascagoula, Mississippi as Maritime Commission hull number 161, Ingalls hull number 294, as an 11,900 ton C3-S-A2 type freighter the SS MORMACPENN ordered for the US operator Moore-McCormack Line. Her keel was laid down May 15th 1941, by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. At this stage she carries no armament or Radar. Port side view of HMS HUNTER during her builders Propulsion: 2 Foster Wheeler boilers 1 x Allis-ChalmersĪ/C lifts: 2 aft 34ft long x 42ft wide forward 42ft long xĪrmament: 2 single 4in USN Mk 9, 4 twin 40mm Bofors, 8 twin The design was transferred from its original shield into a standard, circular badge.įor explanations of heraldic terms see the Badges & Honours page.įlight deck: 442ft x 80ft wood covered mild steel plate Originally designed for the the ‘H’ class destroyer ‘HUNTER’ which was sunk in April 1940 and the ship’s name was honoured by allocating it to a new escort carrier replacing her promulgated name of ‘TRAILER’.
The design features the crossbow, a silent weapon. On a green field: A crossbow bendwise to sinister, gold, flanked by two bolts, silver.
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