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CHARGER escort aircraft carrier (1942)


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Charger 1945

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
AVG30, 8.1942- ACV30, 7.1943- CVE30 Charger (ex-BAVG4, ex-Rio de la Plata) 188 Sun SB, Chester // Newport News 19.1.1940 1.3.1941 3.3.1942 stricken 3.1946


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

11800

Displacement full, t

16000

Length, m

141.7 wl 150.0 oa

Breadth, m

21.2 wl 33.9 oaс

Draught, m

7.66 full load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 Sun-Doxford diesels

Power, h. p.

8500

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 3061

Endurance, nm(kts)26340(15)
Armament

1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 10 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 36 aircraft (F2A Buffalo fighters, SOC Seagull reconnaissance planes)

Electronic equipment

SC radar

Complement

856



Air group


Year Fighters reconnaissance planes
     


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<i>Charger</i> 1945
Charger 1945


ChargerAircraft facilities

Aircraft facilities (fd - 3,189 m², ha - 493 m² / 2,615 m³): Flight deck: 134.0 x 23.8 m. Hangar: 29.9 x 16.5 x 5.3 m. There was 1 elevator in the center line (3.4 t, 11.6 x 10.4 m). There was 1 H 2 catapult. Aircraft fuel stowage: 341 000 l.   

Project history

One of five Archer class ships, built in the USA by UK order. 4.10.1940, already after launching, decision was accepted to leave one ship in the USA and to use her for British naval pilots training. Ship was commissioned by RN 2.10.1941 and 4.10.1941 returned under USN flag with British name. Charger was converted from cargo m/s Rio de la Plata (С-3 type). Structurally she was very much close to Long Island, but had increased flight deck, small island superstructure and a smaller aviation petrol stowage. Simultaneously the fuel stowage was increased more than twice, at the expense of the disappeared necessity to load the lead ballast as it should be made on Long Island.

Modernizations

None.

1.1946: 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 11, 10 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 catapult, 36 aircraft, SC radar

Naval service

No significant events.