The escort aircraft carrier had to be finished off by American torpedoes.

They are the first strikes launched from an escort aircraft carrier during the Korean War.

Two days later, she joined a group of four damaged escort aircraft carriers which were retiring to Guam.

Two days later the escort aircraft carrier sailed for the east coast, reaching Portsmouth 8 February.

The ships fall into two broad groups, purpose-built tankers and an escort aircraft carrier converted from a merchant ship.

The Casablanca-class escort aircraft carriers are the most numerous class of aircraft carriers ever built.

She also escorted aircraft carriers carrying Supermarine Spitfires.

One other ship, an escort aircraft carrier, had been named USS Anzio.

Seven Allied Escort aircraft carrier, along with land-based fighter planes from Corsica, provided air cover.

'Johnston' next helped protect escort aircraft carriers providing close air support for the invasion and capture of the Palau Islands.

In February, Laffey escorted aircraft carriers in airstrikes against Tokyo.

She was assigned to duty escorting aircraft carriers engaged in training, acting as anti-submarine patrol vessel and plane guard during flight operations.

Haida returned to patrol on 3 January 1953 and escorted aircraft carriers as well as performing coastal bombardments.

On 2 April the transport joined the screen of escort aircraft carriers loaded with the first land-based planes to be sent to Okinawa.

Pretoria Castle (1939) was also first requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser, but later served as an escort aircraft carrier.

The solution to the problem were large numbers of mass-produced merchant hulls converted into escort aircraft carriers (also known as "jeep carriers").

Most of the Navy's submarines are nuclear-powered fast attack vessels that frequently escort aircraft carriers and other large vessels on deployments.

The escort aircraft carrier burst into flames about 2,000 yards from Suamico and was later abandoned and sunk by American destroyers.

The close call prompted Hitler to mandate that Tirpitz was not to attack another convoy unless its escorting aircraft carrier were sunk or disabled.

The Ruler class of escort aircraft carriers served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

The escort aircraft carrier HMS Reaper took part in the operation, being used to ferry captured airframes.

In 1941, he was the first commander of the USS Long Island, the Navy's first escort aircraft carrier.

HMS Charger (D27) was an escort aircraft carrier that served in World War II.

HMS Avenger was a Royal Navy escort aircraft carrier during the Second World War.

Never commissioned, the escort aircraft carrier was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, 19th Fleet, at Tacoma, Wash.