Allied Warships

HMS Stalker (D 91)

Escort Carrier of the Attacker class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassAttacker 
PennantD 91 
Built byWestern Pipe & Steel Co. (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Oct 1941 
Launched5 Mar 1942 
Commissioned21 Dec 1942 
End service29 Dec 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease.
Returned to the United States Navy on 29 December 1945.
Stricken by the United States Navy on 20 March 1946.
Sold into merchantile service being renamed Riouw.
Renamed Lobito in 1968.
Scrapped in Taiwan in September 1975.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Harry Stewart Murray-Smith, RN
15 June 1942 – September 1944

Capt. Leonard Chisholm Sinker, DSC, RN
September 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

 
Former nameUSS Hamlin

Commands listed for HMS Stalker (D 91)

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1Capt. Harry Stewart Murray-Smith, RN15 Jun 1942Sep 1944
2Capt. Leonard Chisholm Sinker, DSC, RNSep 1944Oct 1945 ?

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