HMS Rajah (D10)

	Rajah in 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Prince
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	17 December 1942
Launched	18 May 1943
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Rajah
Commissioned	17 January 1944
Decommissioned	7 February 1947
Identification	Pennant number:D10
Fate	Sold as a merchant ship; sold for scrap 1975
General characteristics
Class and type	Bogue-class escort carrier (USA); Ruler-class escort carrier (UK);
Displacement	9,800 tons
Length	495 ft 7 in (151.05 m)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draught	25 ft 6 in (7.77 m)
Propulsion	Steam turbines, one shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement	646 officers and men
Armament	2 × 5"/51 guns; 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors; 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon;
Aircraft carried	24

USS Prince (CVE-45) (originally named McClure, designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort carrier laid down on 17 December 1942 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington. She was renamed Prince on 13 November 1942 and launched on 18 May 1943. She was sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan, reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943 and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 17 October 1943.

Prince served the United Kingdom as HMS Rajah (D10). She was returned to the

Naval Vessel Registry on 7 February 1947 and delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corporation, on 7 July. She became the merchant ship Drente (later renamed Lambros, then Ulysses) in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan

in 1975.