Allied Warships

Escort Carriers


The escort carrier HMS Puncher of the Ameer class.

All Escort Carriers classes. The list is divided by navy, then ordered by number of ships of that class.


Royal Navy

 Merchantile Conversion (19)
 Avenger / Charger (5)
 Attacker (2)
 Nairana (2)
 Activity (1)
 Audacity (1)
 Campania (1)
 Pretoria Castle (1)

US Navy

 Casablanca (50)
 Repeat Bogue (24)
 Commencement Bay (23)
 Bogue (18)
 Sangamon (4)
 Long Island / Archer (2)


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), that is not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Escort Carriers


 DateVesselClass

1941

21 Dec 1941HMS Audacity (D 10)Audacity 

1942

15 Nov 1942HMS Avenger (D 14)Avenger / Charger 

1943

27 Mar 1943HMS Dasher (D 37)Avenger / Charger 
24 Nov 1943USS Liscome Bay (CVE 56)Casablanca 

1944

29 May 1944USS Block Island (ii) (CVE 21)Bogue 
25 Oct 1944USS Gambier Bay (CVE 73)Casablanca 
25 Oct 1944USS Midway (i) (CVE 63)Casablanca 

1945

4 Jan 1945USS Ommaney Bay (CVE 79)Casablanca 
21 Feb 1945USS Bismark Sea (CVE 95)Casablanca 

9 Escort carriers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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The last stand of the tin can sailors

Hornfischer, James D.

Books dealing with this subject include:

A Blue Water Navy, WAB Douglas, R. Sarty, M. Whitby et al., 2007
Escort Carriers of World War Two, Poolman, Kenneth, 1989
Hunter-Killer, Y\'Blood, William T., 1983
The last stand of the tin can sailors, Hornfischer, James D., 2005
The Men of the Gambier Bay, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, 2002



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