HMS Rajah (D10)

HMS Rajah (D10)

The USS "Prince" (CVE-45) (originally named "McClure", designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort aircraft carrier laid down 17 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington, renamed "Prince" 13 November 1942; launched 18 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan; reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943; and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease 17 October 1943.

"Prince" served the United Kingdom as HMS "Rajah" (D10). She was returned to the United States Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, 13 December 1946. Struck from the Naval Vessel Registry 7 February 1947, she was delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corporation, 7 July, and became the merchant ship "Drente" (later renamed "Lambros", then "Ulysses") in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1975.

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