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99k | This photo may have been taken at Burrard's Dry Dock in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where HMS Ameer was modified to Royal Navy standards in the second half of 1943. |
Courtesy of Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers | |
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92k | Quarter view of the British escort carrier Ameer showing arrangement of the sponsoned 5-inch and 40mm. A.A. guns at the stern, the latter with two directors mounted between them. Imperial War Museum photo from Navies of the Second World War, by H.T. Lenton (Doubleday & Co., 1968). |
Derick S. Hartshorn | |
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72k | As above. |
Haze Gray & Underway | |
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95k | Shown at sea, escorted by a destroyer (this is identified as HMS Raider on the photo, but in fact appears to be HMS Wager (R98)). |
IWM | |
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59k | HMS Ameer, ex-USS Baffins (CVE-35), as part of the British EIF (East Indies Fleet) tied-up at Trincomalee, Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) on VJ-Day, with Hellcats of No.896 Sqd, FAA embarked (Fleet Air Arm Museum). |
Robert Hurst | |
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164k | HMS Ameer, possibly at Trincomalee as she is in the false hull camouflage worn in the Far East. |
Courtesy of Tony Drury, Royal Navy Escort Carriers | |
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