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HMS Attacker (D02) was an American-built escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #RoyalNavy#WorldWarTwo #SecodWorldWar #HMSAttacker #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Japanese Escort Carrier, Shimane Maru, after being attacked by Avenger aircraft operating from HMS Victorious, 24 July 1945 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #warship #navalwarfare #IJN #ImperialJapaneseNavy #escortCarrier #AircraftCarrier #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
Shimane Maru was the lead ship of her class of escort carriers for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Although she was completed, the ship did not enter active service before being destroyed by British aircraft on 24 July 1945. The concept of the class was similar to British merchant aircraft carriers. The class consisted of two oil tankers of 10,002 gross register tons (GRT) that were modified by the Navy to provide minimal anti-submarine air cover for convoys going from Southeast Asia to the Japanese homeland. The conversion consisted of fitting a full-length flight deck, a small hangar, and a single elevator. An island and catapults were not installed. The only other change was the rerouting of the boiler uptakes to the aft starboard side where they discharged in a typical downward-facing funnel. The Shimane Maru was fitted with a single geared steam turbine set with a total of 8,600 shaft horsepower (6,400 kW). It drove one propeller shaft using steam provided by two boilers. The ship had a designed speed of 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) and a range of 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). The flight deck was 154.99 meters (508 ft 6 in) long and had a maximum width of 23.01 meters (75 ft 6 in). The hangar, built on top of the well deck, was served by a single elevator from the flight deck. It had a capacity of a dozen aircraft.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... HMS Pursuer was an Attacker-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy in World War Two. Built in the US in 1942, she was transferred and commissioned into the #RoyalNavy in July 1943. #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #HMSPursuer #AircraftCarrier #EscortCarrier
HMS Pursuer was an Attacker-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy in World War Two. Built in the US in 1942, she was transferred and commissioned into the Royal Navy in July 1943. Although used primarily as a convoy escort on 3 April 1944, she provided fighter support for an air strike on the German battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway. She subsequently provided anti-submarine screening during the D-Day Normandy landings, participated in raids on shipping around Norway and provided air cover during the landings in Southern France. With the end of World War Two, she was returned to the US Navy in 1946 and scrapped.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Escort Carrier USS Card CVE-11 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #USNavy #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #WW2
Escort Carrier USS Card CVE-11 - Destination's Journey
Photographs of the US Navy escort carrier USS Card CVE-11. Served in World War Two, where her aircraft and escorts sank 11 German U-boats
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August 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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US Escort Carrier USS Bogue CVE-9 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #MaritmeHistory #NavalHistory #USNavy #AircraftCarrier #EscortCarrier #WW2
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August 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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USS Liscome Bay CVE-56 US Navy Escort Carrier www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) was the second of the Casablanca-class escort carriers to be built for the US Navy. #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #aircraftCarrier #EscortCarrier #USNavy #WW2
USS Liscome Bay CVE-56 US Navy Escort Carrier - Destination's Journey
Photos of the US Navy escort carrier USS Liscome Bay CVE-56. Sunk by torpedo and magazine detonation with large loss of life 24 Nov1943
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August 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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HMS Thane D48 British Escort Carrier www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #HMSThane #RoyalNavy #WW2 #AircraftCarrier #EscortCarrier
HMS Thane D48 British Escort Carrier - Destination's Journey
Photos of HMS Thane a Ruler-class escort carrier in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Badly damaged by a torpedo in Jan 1945 and scrapped
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August 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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British Escort Carrier HMS Trouncer www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #escortcarrier #HMSTrouncer #RoyalNavy #BattleoftheAtlantic #aircraftcarrier #WorldWarTwo #WW2
British Escort Carrier HMS Trouncer - Destination's Journey
Photos of the British Royal Navy Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Trouncer which served during the Second World War. Lend Lease from the US
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August 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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British Escort Carrier HMS Trumpeter www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #MaritmeHistory #NavalHistory #HMSTrumpeter #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #WW2 #BattleoftheAtlantic
British Escort Carrier HMS Trumpeter - Destination's Journey
Photos of the Ruler-class escort carrier HMS Trumpeter operated by the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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#USSMundaCVE104 was launched served as an aircraft transport and as a replenishment escort carrier in the Pacific Theatre. She was sold for scrapping in June 1960 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSMunda #CVE104 #USNavy #USN #WW2 #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #NavalHistory
USS Munda CVE-104 was launched on 27 May 1944, and commissioned on 8 July, and served as an aircraft transport and as a replenishment escort carrier in the Pacific Theatre. She was the last of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the US Navy. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the repatriation of U.S. forces from bases scattered around the Pacific. She was decommissioned in April 1946, when she was mothballed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Ultimately, she was sold for scrapping in June 1960
February 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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USS Mindoro CVE-120 with a K-class blimp from ZP-1 Squadron on deck, sometime in the first half of the 1950s. www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSMindoroCVE120 #USSMindoro #CVE120 #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #USNavy #USN #NavalHistory #aviation #Blimp #KClassBlimp
USS Mindoro CVE-120 with a K-class blimp from ZP-1 Squadron on deck, sometime in the first half of the 1950s.
February 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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USS Rabaul CVE-121 US Navy Escort Carrier. Immediately after launch. www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSRabaul #USSRabaulCVE121 #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #USNavy #USN #WW2 #NavalHistory
Rabaul was laid down 29 January 1945 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Tacoma, Washington, launched 14 June 1945 and delivered to the Navy 30 August 1946. Rabaul was named for Rabaul, a strategically significant port in the Pacific theater of World War II. Accepted into the 19th Fleet, (the Pacific Reserve Fleet), Rabaul was berthed at Tacoma without seeing any active service. The warship was mothballed there during the early years of the Cold War and served as a mobilization reserve in case of war with the Soviet Union. Reclassified CVHE-121 in June 1955, she was transferred to the San Diego Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet in June 1958 and reclassified AKV-21 in May of the following year. She remained in reserve at San Diego until 1 September 1971 when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register and sold for scrapping.
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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USS Palau (CVE-122) underway, 10 May 1950 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSPalauCVE122 #USSPalau #CVE122 #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #USNavy #USN #WW2 #NavalHistory
Launched on 6 August just as World War Two was ending, USS Palau CVE-122 was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier built for the US Navy. Commissioned on 15 February 1946, she spent most of her career on the US East Coast and Mediterranean. Decommissioned on 15 June 1954, she was stricken in 1960 and sold for scrap.
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#USSTinianCVE-123 was a Commencement Bay-class #escortcarrier built for the #USNavy. Although completed and delivered, she never entered active service www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #USSTinian #CVE123 #aircraftcarrier #WW2 #NavlaHistory #Navy
Launched on 5 September 1945, USS Tinian CVE-123 was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier built for the US Navy. Although completed and delivered, she never entered active service and spent her entire career in the Reserve Fleet at Tacoma and later at San Diego. While in reserve, Tinian was re-classified as a helicopter carrier (CVHE-123) and later as an aircraft ferry (AKV-123). She was sold for scrap in 1971 having never been commissioned.
February 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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USS Nassau (CVE-16) a Bogue-class escort carrier of the US Navy during www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #aircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #Military #naval #NavalHistory #navalwarfare #Navy #USNavy #USSNassau #USSNassauCVE16 #warfare #WW2
Originally classified as AVG-16, USS Nassau was reclassified as ACV-16 before her launch on 4 April 1942. Commissioned on 20 August 1942. Until April 1943 she operated as an aircraft transport in the Pacific. From 4 to 20 May 1943, she operated with Task Force 51, during which time composite squadron 21 (CV-21) undertook support missions for the occupation of Attu Island. On 15 July 1943 her classification changed to CVE-16. Barnes’ aircraft undertook combat patrols, anti-submarine patrols and ground attacks during the invasion of Tarawa and again during the Marshal’s Campaign. From March to September 1944 she again undertook aircraft ferry and transport duties. Starting on 1 September 1944, she was part of the aircraft replenishment fleet, supplying aircraft and pilots to the fleet carriers, enabling them to remain on station longer. At the end of the war she was placed in reserves where her classification was changed to CVHE-16 on 12 June 1955. She was struck from the Naval Register on 1 March 1959 and scrapped in 1961.
December 21, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Captured Japanese aircraft being transported back to the US on USS Barnes CVE-20. #NavalHistory #USSBArnes #EscortCarrier #AricraftCarrier #WW2 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m...
Captured Japanese aircraft being transported back to the US on USS Barnes CVE-20
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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US Escort Carrier USS Altamaha CVE-18
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Launched on 22 May 1942 and commissioned on 15 September 1942, USS Altamaha (AVG-18/ACV-18/CVE-18) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier in the United States Navy during World War II. Before commissioning, her designation was changed from AGV-18 to ACV-18. On 15 July 1943 the designation was changed again, this time to CVE-18. From commissioning until March 1944, Altamaha undertook training and transport tasks, delivering planes and cargo throughout the Pacific. On 24 February 1944, in a test off the California coast, blimp K-29 landed on USS Altamaha (CVE-18). this was the first time a non-rigid airship landed and took off from an aircraft carrier at sea. From March to April 1944, she undertook anti-submarine patrols off the Marshall Islands. On 11 April she was the subject of a torpedo attack, but evaded all four torpedoes. After returning the the US west coast for maintenance she resumed transport duties for the remainder of the war. Post war, she was assigned to Operation Magic Carpet, and transported armed forces personnel and equipment throughout the Pacific back to the United States. The carrier was placed out of commission, in reserve, on 27 September 1946. The ship was redesignated CVHE-18 on 12 June 1955. Altamaha was sold on 25 April 1961 to Eisenberg & Co., New York City, N.Y., and, later that year, was scrapped in Japan. Launched on 22 May 1942 and commissioned on 15 September 1942, USS Altamaha (AVG-18/ACV-18/CVE-18) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier in the United States Navy during World War II. Before commissioning, her designation was changed from AGV-18 to ACV-18. On 15 July 1943 the designation was changed again, this time to CVE-18. From commissioning until March 1944, Altamaha undertook training and transport tasks, delivering planes and cargo throughout the Pacific. On 24 February 1944, in a test off the California coast, blimp K-29 landed on USS Altamaha (CVE-18). this was the first time a non-rigid airship landed and took off from an aircraft carrier at sea. From March to April 1944, she undertook anti-submarine patrols off the Marshall Islands. On 11 April she was the subject of a torpedo attack, but evaded all four torpedoes. After returning the the US west coast for maintenance she resumed transport duties for the remainder of the war. Post war, she was assigned to Operation Magic Carpet, and transported armed forces personnel and equipment throughout the Pacific back to the United States. The carrier was placed out of commission, in reserve, on 27 September 1946. The ship was redesignated CVHE-18 on 12 June 1955. Altamaha was sold on 25 April 1961 to Eisenberg & Co., New York City, N.Y., and, later that year, was scrapped in Japan.
November 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM