HMS Nabob (D77)
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| Career |
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| Laid down: | 20 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 March 1943 |
| Commissioned (RN): | 7 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1946 |
| Fate: | merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1977 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 15,390 tons (full) |
| Length: | 495.66 ft (151.1 m) |
| Beam: | 69.5 ft (21.2 m) |
| Draft: | 25.5 ft (7.8 m) |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Complement: | 1,000 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 x 5 inch guns, 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors, 20 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft: | 18-24 |
The USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) was a Bogue-Prince William-class escort aircraft carrier that was laid down 20 October 1942, launched 22 March 1943, and transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom 7 September 1943 prior to her commissioning as HMS Nabob (D77). She served as an ASW carrier and was manned by personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy.
On 22 August 1944 she was torpedoed by U-354 in the Barents Sea, while returning from a strike against the Tirpitz (Operation Goodwood) and sustained heavy damage. Five days later she steamed into Scapa Flow under her own power but had lost 21 men.
She was eventually judged not worth repairing, was beached and abandoned then cannibalized for other ships and decommissioned on 30 September 1944. She was returned to United States custody and sold into merchant service 26 October 1946 as the merchant Nabob (later renamed Glory). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1977.
Nabob is one of three US-built Royal Navy escort carriers listed as lost in action during World War II.
See also
- See USS Edisto and HMS Nabob for other ships of these names.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships''.
| Bogue-class escort carrier |
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| United States Navy |
| Bogue | Card | Copahee | Core | Nassau | Altamaha | Barnes | Block Island | Breton | Croatan | Prince William |
| List of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy |
| List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy |
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