HMS Ruler (D72)
HMS Ruler in January 1945
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 United States
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| Name: | USS St. Joseph |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 25 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 21 August 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Ruler |
| Commissioned: | 22 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 January 1946 |
| Struck: | 20 March 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1946 |
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| Displacement: | 15,390 tons |
| Length: | 492 ft (150 m) |
| Beam: | 108 ft 6 in (33.07 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 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 30 |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | British Pacific Fleet |
| Operations: | Battle of Okinawa |
HMS Ruler was a Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy during World War II. She was built in the United States as the Bogue-class carrier St. Joseph (AVG/CVE/ACV-50) for Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom.
The name St. Joseph (making her the first United States Navy ship named for St. Joseph Bay, Florida) was assigned to MC hull 261, a converted C3-S-A1 cargo ship, on 23 August 1942. She was laid down on 25 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington. She was redesignated CVE-50 on 15 July, launched on 21 August 1943 and sponsored by Mrs. W.W. Smyth. The carrier was transferred to the UK on 22 December 1943 and commissioned the same day as HMS Ruler with the pennant number D72.
HMS Ruler served in the North Atlantic during 1944, protecting the vital flow of men and war from the United States to Great Britain and to fighting fronts on the European continent. In early 1945, she transferred to the Pacific Theatre where she supported a raid on Truk and the campaign to take Okinawa.
After the war ended, Ruler returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 January 1946. She was decommissioned from RN service on 29 January, and was accepted by the US Navy the same day. In excess of the Navy’s needs, she was slated for disposal and struck from the Navy Register on 20 March 1946. The ship was sold on 13 May and scrapped within the year.
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