HMS Speaker (D90)

Career	Royal Navy Ensign
Laid down:	9 October 1942
Launched:	20 February 1943
Commissioned (RN):	20 November 1943
Decommissioned:	25 September 1946
Fate:	merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1972
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,333 tons
Length:	496 ft
Beam:	69.5 ft
Draft:	23.25 ft
Speed:	18 knots
Complement:	646 officers and men
Armament:	2 x 5-inch guns, 8 x twin 40mm Bofors, 35 x single 20mm Oerlikon
Aircraft:	18-24

The USS Delgada (CVE-40) (originally AVG-40 then later ACV-40) was an escort aircraft carrier launched 20 February 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. James B. Sykes and reclassified CVE-40 on 15 July 1943. She was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 20 November 1943, and served as HMS Speaker. She was returned to the United States on 27 July 1946 and sold into merchant service 22 April 1947 as Lancero (later renamed President Osmena in 1965 and Lucky One in 1971). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1972.