HMS Khedive (D62)
HMS Khedive
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Cordova |
Namesake | Cordova Bay in Alaska |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 22 September 1942 |
Launched | 30 January 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Khedive |
Commissioned | 25 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 19 July 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number:D62 |
Fate | Sold as merchant ship; for scrap 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type |
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Displacement | 16,620 tons (full) |
Length | 495 ft 7 in (151.05 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draught | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Complement | 646 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 18-24 |
USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an
She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as Rempang (later Daphne). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975.
Design and description
These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers. They were also all laid down as escort carriers and not converted merchant ships.[2] All the ships had a complement of 646 men and an overall length of 492 feet 3 inches (150.0 m), a beam of 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 m) and a draught of 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m).[2] Propulsion was provided by a steam turbine, two boilers connected to one shaft giving 9,350 shaft horsepower (6,970 kW), which could propel the ship at 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph).[3]
Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge–flight control on the
Notes
References
- Cocker, Maurice (2008). Aircraft-Carrying Ships of the Royal Navy. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-4633-2.