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HMS Atheling
Royal Navy Ruler-class escort carrier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Glacier.
HMS Atheling (D51) was a Royal Navy Ruler-class escort carrier of the Second World War. She was a US built ship provided under lend lease and returned to the US at the end of hostilities.
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Name | USS Glacier |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 9 June 1942 |
Launched | 7 September 1942 |
Commissioned | 3 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
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Name | HMS Atheling |
Commissioned | 28 October 1943 |
Decommissioned | 6 December 1946 |
Stricken | 7 February 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number:D51 |
Fate | Returned to US 13 December 1946. Sold as merchant ship, scrapped 1967 |
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Displacement | 7,800 tons (full load) |
Length | 495 ft 7 in (151.05 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Complement | 890 officers and men |
Armament | 2 × 4"/50, 5"/38 or 5"/51 guns |
Aircraft carried | 18-24 |
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