The Attacker class was a group of eleven American-built escort aircraft carriers that served with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. They were converted from steam-turbine C3 cargo ships and supplied under Lend-Lease, and they are the part of a larger batch of 22 conversions that the United States Navy did not keep for itself. Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula and Western Pipe and Steel each built four of the class, with Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding building the remaining three, so the Mississippi yard is one of three builders. The ships escorted convoys with anti-submarine and fighter aircraft, supported the landings in North Africa and the Mediterranean, and took part in an operation against the German battleship Tirpitz. All eleven survived the war and went back to the United States Navy, which sold eight for conversion to merchant ships and scrapped three.
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The Attacker class were a class of American-built escort aircraft carriers that served with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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The Attacker class vessels were all laid down in 1941 and 1942
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The Attacker class were a class of American-built escort aircraft carriers that served with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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these powered by steam turbines, for conversion into further carriers
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All eleven ships survived the war and were eventually returned to the United States Navy
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with Ingalls Shipbuilding and Western Pipe & Steel building four each
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with Ingalls Shipbuilding and Western Pipe & Steel building four each
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The Attacker class were a class of American-built escort aircraft carriers that served with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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The Attacker class were a class of American-built escort aircraft carriers that served with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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none had diesels or VTE but steam turbines according to US naval standards
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feeding a single General Electric steam turbine engine, connected to a single shaft
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