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HMS Chaser (D 32)

Escort Carrier of the Attacker class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassAttacker 
PennantD 32 
Built byIngalls Shipbuilding Corp. (Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down28 Jun, 1941 
Launched19 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned9 Apr, 1943 
End service12 May, 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease.
Returned to the United States Navy on 12 May 1946.
Stricken by the United States Navy on 3 July 1946.
Sold into merchantile service on 20 December 1946 being renamed Aagtekerk.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Hubert Victor Perry McClintock, DSO, RN
1 February 1943 – 15 January 1945

Capt. R.G. Poole, RN
15 January 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameUSS Breton (i)

Noteable events involving Chaser include:

4 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-472 was sunk (or maybee scuttled by it's own crew) in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º05'N, 26º40'E, by gunfire and rockets from the British destroyer HMS Onslaught (Cdr. the Hon. A. Pleydell-Bouverie, RN) and Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 816) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN). (see map)

5 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-366 was sunk in the Arctic Ocean north-west of Hammerfest, in position 72º10'N, 14º44'E, by rockets from a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 816) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN). (see map)

6 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-973 was sunk north-west of Narvik, in position 70º40'N, 05º48'E, by rockets from a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn 816/X) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN). (see map)


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