HMS Trouncer (D85)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Trouncer and USS Perdido.

History
UK
Name	HMS Trouncer
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	1 February 1943
Launched	17 June 1943
Commissioned	31 January 1944
Decommissioned	12 April 1946
Fate	Sold as Merchant ship; scrapped 1973
General characteristics
Class and type	Bogue class escort carrier
Displacement	9,800 tons
Length	495 feet 8 inches (151.08 m)
Beam	69 feet 6 inches (21.18 m)
Draught	26 feet (7.9 m)
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement	890 officers and men
Armament	2 × 5 inch guns 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors 27 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft carried	28
Service record
Operations:	Battle of the Atlantic

The USS Perdido (CVE-47) (previously AVG-47, later ACV-47) was laid down as ACV-47 under Maritime Commission contract by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington, 1 February 1943; launched 16 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. H. M. Bemis, reclassified as CVE-47 on 15 July 1943; and completed at the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon.

Assigned to the United Kingdom under lend lease 23 June 1943, Perdido was taken over by the Royal Navy at Portland, 31 January 1944. During the remainder of World War II, she served the Royal Navy as HMS Trouncer (D85) and took part in convoy escort and ASW patrol operations. The escort carrier returned to Norfolk, Virginia, 21 February 1946. Perdido was returned to the U.S. Navy 3 March 1946, and on 25 March, the Secretary of the Navy authorized her for disposal. Her name was struck from the Naval Register 12 April 1946. She was sold to William B. St. John, delivered to her purchaser 6 March 1947 and pressed into merchant service as Greystroke Castle (renamed Gallic in 1954 and Berinnes in 1959). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1973.

References

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

External links

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