Bogue-class escort carrier

USS Bogue (CVE-9)
Class overview
Name	Bogue class
Builders	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Ingalls Shipbuilding Western Pipe & Steel
Operators	Royal Navy  United States Navy
Preceded by	Long Island class
Succeeded by	Sangamon class
Subclasses	Attacker class Ruler class (Ameer class) Prince William class
In commission	1942–1947
Completed	45
Lost	3
General characteristics
Type	Escort carrier
Displacement	8,390 long tons (8,520 t) (standard) 13,980 long tons (14,200 t) (full load)
Length	465 ft (142 m) (wl) 495 ft 8 in (151.08 m) (oa) 440 ft (130 m) (fd)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) wl 82 ft (25 m) (fd) 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m) (extreme width)
Draft	23 ft 3 in (7.09 m) (mean) 26 ft (7.9 m) (max)
Installed power	2 × Foster-Wheeler 285 psi (1,970 kPa) boilers 8,500 shp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Allis-Chalmers steam turbine 1 × Screw
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	26,300 nmi (48,700 km; 30,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Capacity	2,400 long tons (2,439 t) (fuel oil) 100,000 US gal (380,000 L; 83,000 imp gal) (Avgas)
Complement	890
Armament	As designed: 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 caliber 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons Varied, ultimate armament: 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal dual-purpose gun (DP) 8 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft guns 20 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried	19-24
Aviation facilities	1 × hydraulic catapult 2 × elevators

The Bogue class were a class of 45 escort carriers built in the United States for service with the US Navy and the Royal Navy, through the Lend-Lease program, during World War II. Following the war, ten Bogue-class ships were kept in service by the US Navy and were reclassified for helicopter and aircraft transport operations.

The first 22 ships of the class were converted from finished, or near finished, Maritime Commission C3-S-A1 and C3-S-A2 ships, with 11 retained by the US Navy, and the other 11 transferring to the Royal Navy, where they were renamed and grouped as the Attacker class. Prince William was the last of the USN ships built and comprised all of the lessons learned in the earlier ships, sometimes it is referred to as its own subclass of the Bogue class. The remaining 23 ships were built from the keel up on C3-class designs and classified as Ruler class, or the Ameer-class. Following the war, those ships that served with the Royal Navy were returned to the United States and were either scrapped or converted for mercantile use.