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ACV-40 was named Delgada for a point
of land on the California coast. (Map courtesy of Google
Maps.)
Transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 20 November 1943, she became HMS Speaker,
for the chief officer and highest authority of the House of Commons. The ship's badge
represents the head of the mace of the Speaker of the House of Commons (image courtesy of Tommy Trampp). |
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HMS Speaker (D90 / R314)
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Delgada (CVE-40) becomes HMS Speaker, Portland,
Oregon, 20 November 1943. |
Kevin McAuliffe |
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HMS Speaker (D90) moored off Greenock, Scotland 19 May 1944.
Imperial War Museums (IWM), Admiralty Official Collection,
by Beadall, S.J. (Lt), Photo © IWM (No. A 23569) |
Mike Green |
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Starboard bow view of HMS Speaker (D90) off Greenock, Scotland
19 May 1944.
Imperial War Museums (IWM), Admiralty Official Collection,
by Beadall, S.J. (Lt), Photo © IWM (No. A 23570) |
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Starboard bow view of HMS Speaker (D90) off Greenock, Scotland
19 May 1944.
Imperial War Museums (IWM), Admiralty Official Collection,
by Beadall, S.J. (Lt), Photo © IWM (No. A 23571) |
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HMS Speaker at Sydney, Australia, 1945-46. |
Kevin McAuliffe |
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HMS Implacable
(R5) coming in to berth in the eastern suburb of Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW., with Australian troops
on deck. HMS Speaker (R314) is moored alongside ahead of her. Photo Author's Collection.
Image scanned from The
British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force, by David Hobbs (Seaforth
Publishing). |
Robert Hurst |
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HMS Speaker (R314) at anchor in an Australian port; a zealous
censor has, unfortunately, "painted out" the pennant number and radar aerials. Author's collection.
Image scanned from The
British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force, by David Hobbs (Seaforth
Publishing). |
Robert Hurst |
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HMS Speaker (D90), formerly Delgada (CVE-40),
astern of HMS Indefatigable
in March or April of 1945. During that time, Speaker was tasked with providing air cover
during ship-to-ship refueling operations with Hellcat Mk IIs flown by 1840 Naval Air Squadron.
US Navy photo now in the collection of the US National Archives, College Park, Maryland (80-G-316332). |
Tracy White, Researcher @ Large |
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As seen from HMS Khedive (D62), HMS Slinger
(D26), on the left, and HMS Speaker (D90) are taking a tossing with aircraft arranged
on deck. The destroyer in the distance is HMS Eskimo
(F75). The ships are part of a British Naval Task Force operating off Sumatra sometime between 12
April and 18 April 1945.
Imperial War Museums Admiralty Official Collection, Photo
No. © IWM (A 28887). |
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HMS Speaker at Nagasaki after embarking POWs from Fukuoka 3-B
POW Camp in September 1945.
(See "History of H.M.S. Speaker", Parts 2
and 3). |
Keith Maskel, son of a crewmember of HMS Speaker,
via John N. Powers, North China Marines |
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A group of allied POW's on their way home, circa September 1945. My father
John Hilley AC1 1073740 RAF is among the group.
(See "History of H.M.S. Speaker", Parts 2
and 3). |
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HMS Speaker pendant.
Badge: The Mace of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
Motto: Facta Non Verba (Deeds, not Words). |
Alan |
Commercial Service
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Postcard showing Argentinian Lancero, ex-Delgada
(CVE-40), ex-HMS Speaker (D90/R314), berthed in an European port (Rotterdam?), date unknown.
©Alex Duncan. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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Ex-Delgada (CVE-40), ex-HMS Speaker, as Lancero
(Argentinian flag), leaving Bremen, Germany, February 1965. |
Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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