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PRINCE WILLIAM (ACV-19)  /  HMS STRIKER
(later CVE-19)


CLASS - BOGUE
Displacement 7,800 Tons, Dimensions, 495' 8" (oa) x 69' 6" x 26' (Max)
Armament 2 x 5"/51 4 x 40mm, 10 x 20mm, 28 Aircraft.
Machinery, 8,500 SHP; Allis-Chambers, Geared Turbines, 1 screw
Speed, 17.5 Knots, Crew 890.
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CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301903		 59k

Western Pipe & Steel Co. (builder's) trials, San Francisco bay, May 1943.

 From the collection of C.P.O. Richard Webb
via Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301904		 67k
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301905		 43k
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301906		 59k
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301910		 64k

HMS Striker, ex-Prince William (ACV-19), seen 45° off centerline off San Francisco, Calif., May 20, 1943.

Mare Island Naval Ship Yard Ship Files, U.S. National Archives, San Francisco (MINY photo #3773-43).

 Tracy White, Researcher @ Large
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301901		 33k

HMS Striker. Date and place unknown.

 Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301907		 86k

Sub-Lieutenant E.C. Godden in Sea Hurricane Mk.IIc, NF674 'R' flies into the barrier after failing to catch a wire, June 7, 1944.

 From the collection of C.P.O. Richard Webb
via Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301908		 88k

Sub-Lieutenant P.A. Clark in Sea Hurricane Mk.IIc, NF694 'U' Uniform, flies into the barrier after failing to catch a wire, June 13, 1944.

 From the collection of C.P.O. Richard Webb
via Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
CVE-19 / HMS Striker
NS0301909		 98k

HMS Striker underway in the North Atlantic circa summer 1944. Striker operated in Northern waters between April and October on convoy protection duties.

 From the collection of C.P.O. Richard Webb
via Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
CVE-19 Prince William / HMS Striker
NS0301902		 60k

Shown here is HMS Striker as seen from the British-built escort carrier HMS Vindex during Operation Victual, the passage of Convoy JW59 to Russia, August 1944.

 Robert Hurst
CVE-19 Prince William / HMS Striker
NS0301409		 147k

HMS Fencer (ex-USS Croatan), left, is painted "as delivered," but HMS Striker (ex-Prince William) has the "false hull" scheme already applied. Both ships have arrived in Australia direct from the U.K. to join the British Pacific Fleet (BPF), early 1945.

 Courtesy of Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers
PRINCE WILLIAM (ACV-19) / HMS STRIKER History
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