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Size | Image Description | Contributed By And/Or Copyright |
|---|---|---|---|
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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 |
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67k | ||
![]() NS0301905 |
43k | ||
![]() NS0301906 |
59k | ||
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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 |
NS0301901 |
33k | HMS Striker. Date and place unknown. |
Haze Gray & Underway |
![]() 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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