USS Block Island

USS Block Island

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named "Block Island", after Block Island Sound.

*USS|Block Island|CVE-8, was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 9 January 1943 and commissioned the following day as HMS "Hunter" (D80).

*USS|Block Island|CVE-21, went into service in March 1943, and was sunk in May 1944.

*USS|Block Island|CVE-106, was commissioned in December 1944 and active in the closing months of the Pacific War, and periodically in use until 1954.

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