HMS Fencer (D64)

HMS Fencer (D64)

USS "Croatan" (CVE-14) (originally AVG-14 then ACV-14) was transferred to the United Kingdom on 27 February 1943 under lend-lease where she served as HMS "Fencer" (D64). As an anti-submarine warfare carrier, "Fencer" escorted Atlantic, Russian and African convoys, even participating in a strike on the German battleship "Tirpitz" before being transferred to the Pacific. Following World War II, she returned to the United States 21 December 1946, stricken for disposal on 28 January 1947 and sold into merchant service 30 December as "Sydney".

The ship went through a series of renamings, first to "Roma" in 1967, then "Galaxy Queen" in 1970, "Lady Dina" in 1972 and finally "Caribia" in 1973 before being scrapped in Spezia in September 1975.

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