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HMS Battler (D 18)

Escort Carrier of the Attacker class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort Carrier
ClassAttacker 
PennantD 18 
Built byIngalls Shipbuilding Corp. (Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Apr, 1941 
Launched4 Apr, 1942 
Commissioned31 Oct, 1942 
End service12 Feb, 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease.
Returned to the United States Navy on 12 February 1946.
Stricken by the United States Navy on 28 March 1946.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 14 May 1946.

Commanding Officers:
A/Capt. Frank Michael Rokeby Stephenson, RN
April 1942 – July 1944

A/Capt. H. Norman, RN
July 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameUSS Altamaha (i)

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