USS CHARGER (CVE-30) - Escort carrier: PLANS & DESIGN * The first training aircraft carrier of WW2

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0:55 - Training Aircraft on USS Charger (CVE-30)
8:02 - USS Charger (CVE-30): Construction
9:37 - USS Charger (CVE-30): Escort carrier PLANS
11:02 - USS Charger (CVE-30): Career at United States Navy
13:42 - USS Charger (CVE-30): Post-war service

Why so many crashes on USS Charger?
Why was USS Charger's deck full of wrecks?

UNITED STATES
Name:
Rio de la Plata (1941)
Charger (1941–47)
Fairsea (1947–69)

Namesake: Royal Navy name retained
Ordered: 29 November 1939
Builder: Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania
Cost: $2,720,800 (1939 contract)
Yard number: 188
Laid down: 19 January 1940
Launched: 1 March 1941
Acquired: 1 August 1941 (delivery to Navy for conversion)
Commissioned: 3 March 1942
Decommissioned: 15 March 1946

Reclassified:
D27 (R.N. pennant 1941)
AVG-30, 24 January 1942
ACV-30, 20 August 1942
CVE-30, 15 July 1943

Fate:
Sold into merchant service, 30 January 1947
Sold for scrap, 1969

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Class & type: Charger-class escort carrier
Displacement: 15,125 long tons (15,368 t)
Length: 492 ft (150 m)

Beam:
69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
111 ft 2 in (33.88 m) extreme width

Draft: 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m)
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement: 856 officers and enlisted

ARMAMENT
1 x 5 in (130 mm) gun
2 x 3"/50 caliber guns
10 x Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Aircraft carried: 30+

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