She was docked and undocked for the Installation of Asdic and NMB Echo Sounding equipment. This work also included the installation of radio equipment, including TBS-3 and TCS-1, catapult testing, and fitting of towing irons. On Arrival at Norfolk Navy Yard at 11:45 on February 1st she was taken in hand to complete fitting out. Island superstructure at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp The officers of HMS HUNTER pose in front of the The name of the 'H' class destroyer HMS 'HUNTER'). To become HMS 'TRAILER' but this was changed in order to continue Was the sixteenth RN ship to bear the name. Number D80), under the command of Captain H. Royal Navy at Pascagoula on January 11th 943 as HMS HUNTER (pennant The US Navy in Pascagoula on January 9th 1943. Transfer to RN, commissioning and sea trials: January 1943īuild was completed on December 31st 1942 and she was delivered to In line with US Navy policy she was redesignated ACV-8, August 20th 1942. ![]() The hull was requisitioned for, and later purchased by, the US navy for conversion to an Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier the ship name USS BLOCK ISLAND, AVG-8, was promulgated but was cancelled on March 17th 1942 when it was decided that AVG-8 was to be transferred to the Admiralty on loan under Lend/Lease arrangements. Pascagoula, Mississippi as Maritime Commission hull number 161, Ingalls hull number 294, as an 11,900 ton C3-S-A2 type freighter the SS MORMACPENN ordered for the US operator Moore-McCormack Line. Her keel was laid down May 15th 1941, by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. At this stage she carries no armament or Radar. Port side view of HMS HUNTER during her builders Propulsion: 2 Foster Wheeler boilers 1 x Allis-ChalmersĪ/C lifts: 2 aft 34ft long x 42ft wide forward 42ft long xĪrmament: 2 single 4in USN Mk 9, 4 twin 40mm Bofors, 8 twin The design was transferred from its original shield into a standard, circular badge.įor explanations of heraldic terms see the Badges & Honours page.įlight deck: 442ft x 80ft wood covered mild steel plate Originally designed for the the ‘H’ class destroyer ‘HUNTER’ which was sunk in April 1940 and the ship’s name was honoured by allocating it to a new escort carrier replacing her promulgated name of ‘TRAILER’. The design features the crossbow, a silent weapon. On a green field: A crossbow bendwise to sinister, gold, flanked by two bolts, silver. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.RN Research Archive The MONAB Story RN Air Squadrons FAA Bases BPF & EIF Fleets Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]() Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse. ![]() The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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