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USS CROATAN   (ACV-14)  /  HMS FENCER   (D64)
(later CVE-14)


Battle Honours

Atlantic 1943-1944 — Norway 1944 — Arctic 1944 — Pacific 1945
Attacker (US Bogue) Class Escort Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Returned to US Stricken
- 5 Sep 1941 4 Apr 1942 20 Feb 1943 11 Dec 1946 28 Jan 1947
Builder: Western Pipe & Steel Corporation, San Francisco, Calif.
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 Fencer (D64 / R308)
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301401		 71k Undated, Swordfish torpedo aircraft shown on deck. IWM
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301402		 85k Undated, bows on view from the water line. IWM
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301407		 113k

Stern view of HMS Fencer, ex-USS Croatan (AVC-14), in San Francisco Bay on 26 March 1943. US Navy photo #2051-43.

 Darryl Baker
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301408		 106k

Broadside view of HMS Fencer, ex-USS Croatan (AVC-14), in San Francisco Bay on 26 March 1943. US Navy photo #2052-43.

 Darryl Baker
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301406		 39k March 26, 1943, as completed (thanks to Robert Hurst). Haze Gray & Underway
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301404		 74k

HMS Fencer at sea, in 1944.

 Robert Hurst
Croatan (CVE-14) / HMS Fencer
NS0301403		 86k

Picture taken Dec. 20, 1945 in Grand Harbour, Malta, when she was trooping. I was aboard her as a passenger.

© Robert M. Morgan

 © Robert M. Morgan
Commercial Service
CVE-14 Croatan/HMS Fencer
NS0301405		 71k Ex-USS Croatan, ex-HMS Fencer, as the Italian Caribia 2. Genoa, Italy, April 1973. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
View the USS Croatan (ACV-14 / CVE-14)  /  HMS Fencer (D64)
DANFS History entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.
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