HMS Nabob (D77)
Nabob returning home after being torpedoed in August 1944
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| Name: | USS Edisto |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 20 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 March 1943 |
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| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Nabob |
| Commissioned: | 7 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 October 1944 |
| Identification: | Pennant number D77 |
| Fate: | Returned to US, sold for mercantile use |
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| In service: | 1952 |
| Out of service: | 1977 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1977 |
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| Displacement: | 15,390 tons (full) |
| Length: | 495 ft 7 in (151.05 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
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| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,000 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 18-24, Grumman Avenger TBR.I, Grumman Martlet/Wildcat |
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| Operations: | Operation Goodwood III |
HMS Nabob (D77) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States as USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) but did not serve with the United States Navy. In August 1944 the ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 while participating in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz. Nabob survived the attack, but upon returning to port, was considered too damaged to repair. The escort carrier remained in port for the rest of the war and was returned to the United States following it. Nabob is one of three Royal Navy escort carriers built in the United States which is listed as lost in action (2 sunk and 2 heavily damaged and never repaired) during World War II.
The ship was sold for scrap by the United States but found a second life when purchased and converted for mercantile use under her British name, Nabob. Later renamed Glory, the ship was sold for scrapping in 1977.
The Bogue class were 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. All the vessels in the class 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). Propulsion was provided by a steam turbine, two Foster Wheeler 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).
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