HMS Ravager (D70)

	HMS Ravager (D70)
History
United States
Name	Charger; Ravager;
Namesake	One that attacks; One who plunders;
Ordered	as a Type C3-S-A1 hull, MCE hull 240
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Tacoma, Washington
Laid down	11 April 1942
Launched	16 July 1942
Acquired	25 April 1943
Renamed	Ravager, 16 July 1942
Reclassified	ACV, 20 Aug 1942; CVE, 15 July 1943;
Identification	Hull symbol: AVG-24; ACV-24; CVE-24;
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Navy, 25 April 1943
United Kingdom
Name	Ravager
Acquired	25 April 1943
Commissioned	25 April 1943
Decommissioned	27 February 1946
Identification	Hull symbol: D70
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1943
Fate	Returned to USN, 27 February 1946
United States
Name	Ravager
Acquired	27 February 1946
Stricken	12 April 1946
Fate	Sold for commercial use, 1 July 1947
United States
Name	Robin Trent
Acquired	1 July 1947
Fate	Scrapped, 1973
General characteristics
Class & type	Bogue-class escort carrier (USA); Attacker-class escort carrier (UK);
Displacement	7,800 long tons (7,900 t) (standard); 14,170 long tons (14,400 t) (full load);
Length	465 ft (142 m) (lwl); 495 ft 8 in (151.08 m) (max);
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m); 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m) (extreme width);
Draught	24 ft 8 in (7.52 m)
Installed power	2 × boilers; 8,500 shp (6,300 kW);
Propulsion	1 × steam turbines; 1 × shaft;
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	27,300 nmi (50,600 km; 31,400 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	646, excluding air group
Armament	Varied by ship:; 2 × 4 in (102 mm) /50, 5 in (127 mm) /38 or 5 in/51 guns (1×2); 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	20
Aviation facilities	1 × catapult; 2 × elevators;
Service record
Operations	Battle of the Atlantic (1943–44)

HMS Ravager (D70) was an Attacker-class escort carrier built in the United States (as part of the Bogue class) and operated by the Royal Navy during World War II.

Ravager was initially constructed in the U.S. by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding in Tacoma, in 1942. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy and was converted to an escort carrier at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon. Upon completion in 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Navy and named HMS Ravager.

The ship initially served as a convoy escort in the Atlantic theatre. Later in the war she was used mainly as a deck-landing training carrier. In February 1946 she was returned to the US Navy and sold for civilian use in July 1947, being renamed Robin Trent and later Trent. She was scrapped in 1973.