HMS Chaser (D32)

HMS Chaser in 1945
History
United States
Name	Mormacgulf Mormacdove Breton
Namesake	Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. Breton Sound, Louisiana
Operator	Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (intended)
Ordered	as a C3-S-A1 hull MC-162[1]
Awarded	9 September 1940
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Cost	$7,412,192
Yard number	295
Way number	3
Laid down	28 June 1941
Launched	19 June 1942
Acquired	27 March 1943
Renamed	Breton, 26 December 1941
Reclassified	ACV, 20 Aug 1942 CVE, 15 July 1943
Identification	Hull symbol: AVG-10 ACV-10 CVE-10
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Navy, 9 April 1943
United Kingdom
Name	Chaser
Namesake	One that chases or purses another
Acquired	9 April 1943
Commissioned	9 April 1943
Identification	Pennant number: D32 R306 A727
Fate	Returned to USN, 12 May 1946
United States
Name	CVE-10
Acquired	12 May 1946
Stricken	3 August 1946
Fate	Sold for merchant use, 20 Dec 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Bogue-class escort carrier (USA) Attacker-class escort carrier (UK)
Displacement	8,390 long tons (8,520 t) (standard) 13,980 long tons (14,200 t) (full load)
Length	465 ft (142 m) (wl) 495 ft 8 in (151.08 m) (oa) 440 ft (130 m) (fd)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) wl 82 ft (25 m) (fd) 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m) (extreme width)
Draught	23 ft 3 in (7.09 m) (mean) 26 ft (7.9 m) (max)
Installed power	2 × Foster-Wheeler 285 psi (1,970 kPa) boilers 8,500 shp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Allis-Chalmers steam turbine 1 × Screw
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	646
Armament	2 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 caliber MK 9 guns 4 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns (AA) (4×2) 8 × twin 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons 10 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA cannons
Aircraft carried	24
Aviation facilities	1 × hydraulic catapult 2 × elevators
Service record
Operations:	Battle of the Atlantic, Arctic convoys (1943–45)
Victories:	Sank U-472, U-366, U-973 (1944)

HMS Chaser (D32/R306/A727) was an American-built Attacker-class escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Acquired by the United States Navy for conversion to a Bogue-class escort carrier; she was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as Chaser on 9 April 1943, under the Lend-Lease agreement. She spent most of her career escorting convoys in Arctic, she transferred to the British Pacific Fleet in March 1945.