HMS Battler (D18)
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 United States
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| Class and type: | Bogue-class escort carrier |
| Name: | Altamaha |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 15 April 1941 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1942 |
| Acquired: | 31 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946? |
| Fate: | Transferred to RN 31 October 1942 |
 United Kingdom
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| Class and type: | Attacker-class escort carrier |
| Name: | Battler |
| Acquired: | 31 October 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 15 November 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 February 1946 |
| Struck: | 28 March 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1942-1945, Salerno 1943, Indian Ocean. |
| Fate: | Returned to USN 12 February 1946 |
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United States
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| Name: | Battler |
| Acquired: | 12 February 1946 |
| Struck: | 28 March 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 14 May 1946 |
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| Displacement: | 9,800 long tons (10,000 t) (standard) |
| Length: | 496 ft (151 m) |
| Beam: | 105 ft (32 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Installed power: | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
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| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement: | 646, excluding air group |
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| Aircraft carried: | 20 |
| Aviation facilities: | 2 × elevators |
HMS Battler (D18) was an Attacker-class escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
She was commissioned by the United States Navy as USS Altamaha (CVE-6), a Bogue-class escort carrier, and transferred under the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom and commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Battler the same day.
She was laid down on 15 April 1941 as a C3-S-A1, a second replacement freighter, Mormacmail for Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. Under Maritime Commission contract at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Hull 293. She also was purchased and converted prior delivery and on 7 January 1942 she was named Altamaha but the name was cancelled on 17 March 1942. She was launched on 4 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Phillip Seymour, wife of Captain Seymour. She was redesignated ACV on 20 August 1942. Acquired by the United States Navy on 31 October 1942, she was simultaneously transferred (via the Lend-Lease programme) to the United Kingdom on the same day. She was renamed HMS Battler and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 15 November 1942.
There were eight Attacker-class escort carriers in service with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. They were built between 1941 and 1942 by Ingalls Shipbuilding and Western Pipe & Steel shipyards in the United States, both building four ships each.
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