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Allied Warships

HMS Tracker (D 24)

Escort Carrier of the Attacker class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassAttacker 
PennantD 24 
Built bySeattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down3 Nov, 1941 
Launched7 Mar, 1942 
Commissioned31 Jan, 1943 
End service29 Nov, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease.
Returned to the United States Navy on 29 November 1945.
Stricken by the United States Navy on 2 November 1946 and sold into merchantile service being renamed Corrientes.
Scrapped in Portugal in August 1964.

Commanding Officers:
A/Capt. Godfrey Christopher Dickins, RN
September 1942 – 16 August 1943

A/Capt. Donald Scott McGrath, RN
16 August 1943 – 17 January 1944

A/Capt. John Hubert Huntley, RN
17 January 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Tracker include:

, 1944

These photograps were taken in 1944.
Photographs with thanks to David Tolley who's father (marked in the last photograph) Raymond Tolley was an Air Artificer aboard HMS Tracker during that time.

3 Apr, 1944
The German submarine U-288 was sunk in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º44'N, 27º12'E, by depth charges and rockets by Swordfish (Sqdn. 819) and Avenger / Wildcat (Sqdn 846) of the British escort carriers HMS Activity (Sqdn 819) and HMS Tracker (Sqdn 846).

For the following sequence of photographs that show U-288 being attacked shortly before sinking we would like to thank David Tolley who's father Raymond Tolley was an Air Artificer aboard HMS Tracker during that time.

(see map)


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