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ST. GEORGE (ACV-17)  /  HMS PURSUER   (D73)
(later CVE-17)


Battle Honours

Atlantic 1943-1945 — Norway 1944 — Aegean 1944 — Normandy 1944 — South France 1944
Attacker (US Bogue) Class Escort Carrier
Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Returned to US Stricken
- 31 Jul 1941 18 Jul 1942 14 Jun 1943 12 Feb 1946 28 Mar 1946
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.
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: 14+
Aviation facilities: 2 elevators; 1 hydraulic catapult (H 2); 9 arresting wires and 3 barriers
Crew: 646
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CVE-17 / HMS Pursuer
NS0301702		 173k

HMS Pursuer, date and place unknown.

 From the collection of Jack Price.
Submitted by his friend, Carl Berrington
CVE-17 / HMS Pursuer
NS0301705		 87k

Bow view of HMS Pursuer, showing prominent sponsons fore and aft and small ducts at flight deck sides and an HF/DF mast forward of island.

Imperial War Museum photo, from Navies of the Second World War, by H.T. Lenton (Doubleday & Co., 1968).

 Derick S. Hartshorn
CVE-17 / HMS Pursuer
NS0301701		 46k

HMS Pursuer underway, July 1943 (thanks to Robert Hurst). Location unknown.

 Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-17 / HMS Pursuer
NS0301703		 77k

HMS Pursuer with three of her Wildcat fighters airborne over her; 1944.

(Thanks to Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers, for the identification).

 Robert Hurst
CVE-17 / HMS Pursuer
NS0301704		 71k

HMS Pursuer underway, with aircraft carrier HMS Furious in the background, April 1944.

On April 3, along with aircraft carrier Victorious and escort carriers Emperor, Fencer and Searcher, Pursuer and Furious took part in Operation Tungsten, a successful strike on German battleship Tirpitz in Kåfjord, Norway.

On April 26, again with Victorious, Emperor and Searcher, and with escort carrier Striker, they took part in Operation Ridge Able, an attack on shipping in and around Bodo, Norway.

 Courtesy of Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
View the St. George (ACV-17 / CVE-17)  /  HMS Pursuer (D73)
DANFS History entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.
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