Bogue-class escort carrier

USS Bogue (CVE-9)
Class overview
Name:	Bogue class
Builders:	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Ingalls Shipbuilding Western Pipe & Steel
Operators:	Royal Navy  United States Navy
Preceded by:	Long Island class
Succeeded by:	Sangamon class
Subclasses:	Attacker class Ruler class
In commission:	1942–1946
Completed:	45
General characteristics
Type:	Escort carrier
Displacement:	16,620 long tons (16,890 t)
Length:	496 ft (151 m); flight deck: 439 ft (134 m)
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m); flight deck: 70 ft (21 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Installed power:	8,500 shp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × geared steam turbines 2 × boilers 1 × shaft
Speed:	18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement:	646, excluding air group
Armament:	2 × 4 in/ 50 caliber gun (1 × 2) 8 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns (4 × 2) 10-35 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried:	19-24; (typical complement: 12 × fighters (Grumman F4F Wildcats) 9 × torpedo bombers (Grumman TBF Avengers)) (Supermarine Seafires and Fairey Swordfish, respectively, in RN service.)
Aviation facilities:	2 × elevators

The Bogue class were a class of escort carriers built in the United States for service with the U.S. Navy and (under lend-lease) the Royal Navy during World War II. Following the war, ten Bogue-class ships were kept in service by the U.S. Navy and were used for helicopter and aircraft transport operations.

The ships operated by the Royal Navy were renamed and grouped as the Attacker class and the Ruler class; the latter all having names of "Ruler"s. Following the war, those ships that served with the Royal Navy were returned to the United States and were either scrapped or converted for mercantile use.

The Bogue-class escort carriers were based on the Maritime Commission's Type C3 cargo ship hull. Most were built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, but some of the early examples were produced by Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Mississippi and by the Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco, California. They all were named for sounds, and were equipped with derricks for retrieving seaplanes and loading and unloading aircraft.

These vessels were equipped with a variety of weapons, including one or two main guns of 4-inch/50 caliber, 5-inch /38 caliber, or 5-inch /51 caliber plus 40 mm Bofors and 20 mm Oerlikons. The type of main gun and number of smaller guns changed over the course of the war. They could carry as many as 28 aircraft operationally, or more if operating as an aircraft transport with additional aircraft secured to the flight deck.

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