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(BAVG-6)  /  HMS TRACKER (D24)



Battle Honours

Atlantic 1943-1944 — Arctic 1944 — Normandy 1944

Attacker (US Bogue) Class Escort Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Returned to US Stricken
- 3 Nov 1941 7 Mar 1942 31 Jan 1943 29 Nov 1945 2 Nov 1946
Builder: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle-Tacoma, Wash.

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

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HMS Tracker (D24)
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100605t
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Three views of soon-to-be HMS Tracker during trials in the Columbia river conducted by her builders, Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation, Portland, Oregon, before being accepted by the Admiralty on January 31, 1943.

Tracker was the first of 10 RN CVE's to be completed at Portland — five each at Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation, and Commercial Iron Works. These were (in order of completion): Tracker (WI&SC), Searcher (CIW), Ravager (CIW), Trumpeter (CIW), Slinger (WI&SC), Premier (WI&SC), Speaker (WI&SC), Arbiter (CIW), Rajah (WI&SC), and Trouncer (CIW).

Courtesy of Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100606t
284k
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100607t
29k
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100602t
169k From "All Hands" magazine, May 1943 issue. Joe Radigan
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100604t
43k HMS Tracker (D24). Haze Gray & Underway
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100608t
80k

HMS Tracker underway whilst escorting a convoy, with Avenger torpedo-bombers on the deck, aft. Date and location unknown.

Robert Hurst
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100601t
87k Good overhead showing the location and look of the anti-aircraft gun mounts. Swordfish on deck belong to 816 Squadron. 1943. IWM
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100610t
78k

HMS Tracker underway circa 1943 with Seafire and Swordfish aircraft of 816 Sqd, FAA on deck, location unknown.

Robert Hurst
BAVG-6 HMS Tracker
NS030100609t
79k

Starboard quarter view of HMS Tracker underway circa August 1943, location unknown.

Robert Hurst
Commercial Service
ex-BAVG-6/HMS Tracker
NS030100603t
358k

Post-war, as mercantile Corrientes.

Alberto, then 4 years old, was a passenger aboard Corrientes in June 1952, from Genoa, Italy to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Alberto de la Vega (Chile)

BAVG-6  /  HMS Tracker (D24) History
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Crew Contact and Reunion Information
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Name: Mrs C Smalley
Address: 33 St Marys Road
Kelvedon
Essex CO5 9DW
Phone: 01376 572529
E-mail: cherry@smalley4816.fsnet.co.uk
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