USS Charger (CVE 30)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Escort carrier
Class	Avenger / Charger
Pennant	CVE 30
Built by	Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	19 Jan 1940
Launched	1 Mar 1941
Commissioned	3 Mar 1942
End service	15 Mar 1946
History	Built as mercantile Rio de la Plata. Converted to an Escort Carrier (BAVG-4) and commissioned as HMS Charger. Transferred to the U.S.N. on 4 Oct 1941. Commissioned as USS Charger on 3 Mar 1942. Decommissioned and stricken 28 March 1946. Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 30 January 1947. Sold into merchant service as Fairsea in 1949. Scrapped at La Spezia in 1969.
Former name	HMS Charger

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. Thomas Lamison Sprague, USN	3 Mar 1942	15 Dec 1942
2	T/Capt. Grover Budd Hartley Hall, USN	15 Dec 1942	6 Nov 1943
3	T/Capt. Ralph Walter Dunstan Woods, USN	6 Nov 1943	26 Aug 1944
4	T/Capt. Robert Ruffin Johnson, USN	26 Aug 1944	5 Jul 1945
5	Lt.Cdr. William Mason Walsh, USN	5 Jul 1945	15 Jan 1946

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