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USS BAFFINS   (ACV-35)  /  HMS AMEER   (D01)
(later CVE-35)

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.
Fate: 1946: Sold for commercial service. 1948: Converted to cargo ship, renamed Robin Kirk (US flag). October 1969: Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303504		 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
CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303506		 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
CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303502		 72k

As above.

 Haze Gray & Underway
CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303501		 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
CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303503		 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
CVE-35 Baffins / HMS Ameer
NS0303505		 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
HMS AMEER (D01) History, ex-USS BAFFINS (CVE-35)
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