HMS Trumpeter (D09)

History
USA
Name	USS Bastian
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	25 August 1942
Launched	15 December 1942
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy
History
UK
Name	HMS Trumpeter
Commissioned	4 August 1943
Decommissioned	19 June 1946
Fate	Sold as merchant ship; scrapped in 1971
General characteristics
Class and type	Bogue class escort carrier
Displacement	7,800 tons
Length	495 feet 7 inches (151.05 m)
Beam	69 feet 6 inches (21.18 m)
Draught	26 feet (7.9 m)
Propulsion	Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
Speed	18.5 knots (34.3 km/h)
Complement	890 officers and men
Armament	list error: <br /> list (help); 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns; 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors; 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft carried	28
Service record

The USS Bastian (CVE-37) (originally AVG-37 and then ACV-37) was an 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 HMS Trumpeter (D09).

On 4 May 1945 aircraft of 846 Naval Air Squadron flew from Trumpeter to take part in an attack on the U-boat depot at Kilbotn, Norway, contributing eight Avengers and four 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 the Alblasserdijk (later renamed Irene Valmas). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1971.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.