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BRETON (ACV-10) / HMS CHASER (D32)
(later CVE-10)

Battle Honours

Atlantic 1943 — Arctic 1944 — Okinawa 1945

Ordered	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Returned to US	Stricken
*Attacker (US Bogue) Class Escort Carrier*
-	28 Jun 1941	19 Jun 1942	9 Apr 1943	12 May 1946	3 Jul 1946
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.

Laid down as the US mercantile Mormacgulf, under a Maritime Commission contract (hull number 162).
Acquired by the USN, designated AVG-10 and named Breton, after a sound in Louisiana.
Redesignated ACV-10, 20 Aug 1942.
Transferred to the RN and commissioned as HMS Chaser (D32).
Redesignated CVE-10, 15 Jul 1943.
RN designation temporarily changed to R306 for service in the Pacific, 1945.
Returned to USN, 12 May 1946.
Fate: Sold into merchant service 20 Dec 1946 as Aagtekerk. Renamed E Yung, 1967. Foundered, 4 Dec 1972 (or burned and run ashore at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 20 Dec 1972; records are unclear). Hulk salvaged and scrapped in Taiwan, 1973.

Specifications
(As converted, 1943)
Displacement: 7,800 tons standard; 14,170 tons full load
Dimensions (wl): 465' x 69.5' x 24' 8" / 141.7 x 21.2 x 7.5 meters
Dimensions (max.): 495' 8" x 111.5' / 151.1 x 34 meters
Armor: None
Power plant: 2 boilers (285 psi); 1 steam turbine; 1 shaft; 8,500 shp
Speed: 18+ knots
Endurance: 27,300 nautical miles @ 11 knots
Armament: 2 single 4"/50 gun mounts; 4 twin 40-mm/56-cal gun mounts; 8 twin and 10 single 20-mm/70-cal gun mounts
Aircraft: 15+
Aviation facilities: 2 elevators; 1 hydraulic catapult (H 2); 9 arresting wires and 3 barriers
Crew: 646

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
*HMS Chaser* (D32 / R306)**
NS0301003	47k	HMS *Chaser* as completed; June 20, 1943. (Thanks to Robert Hurst, who provided additional info).	Hazegray & Underway
NS0301002	74k	Good overhead showing the stern AA protection and general layout of the flight deck.	IWM
NS0301001	80k	Taken from the Telegraphist Air Gunner's position in a just launched Swordfish of 835 Squadron, while escorting Russian Convoy JW57 in February 1944. Note her narrow beam.	IWM
NS0301004	49k	HMS *Chaser* as R306, circa 1945. Photo from the collection of Paul Silverstone.	Hazegray & Underway
Commercial Service
NS0301007	124k	A glimpse view of *Aagtekerk* (ex-*Breton, ex-HMS Chaser*) working cargo in the port of Bremen, Germany, circa 1954. From an out-of-print port promotion brochure (mid-Fifties).	Gerhard Mueller-Debus
NS0301006	265k	Ex-*Breton, ex-HMS Chaser, as Aagtekerk*, berthed in Bremen, Germany, in the late 1950s. Published in a Bremen Port promotion brochure in 1960.	Gerhard Mueller-Debus
NS0301005	83k	Ex-*Breton, ex-HMS Chaser, as Aagtekerk* (Dutch flag), in Bremerhaven, Germany, April 1967.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus

View the Breton (ACV-10 / CVE-10) / HMS Chaser (D32)
DANFS History entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.

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BRETON (ACV-10) / HMS CHASER (D32) (later CVE-10)

BRETON (ACV-10) / HMS CHASER (D32)
(later CVE-10)