HMS Khedive
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Cordova |
Namesake | Cordova Bay in Alaska |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 22 September 1942 |
Launched | 30 January 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Khedive |
Commissioned | 25 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 19 July 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number:D62 |
Fate | Sold as merchant ship; for scrap 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type |
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Displacement | 16,620 tons (full) |
Length | 495 ft 7 in (151.05 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draught | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Complement | 646 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 18-24 |
USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an escort carrier launched 27 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding of Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell. Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, Cordova was transferred to the Royal Navy on 25 August 1943, as HMS Khedive (D62) Khedive served as the command ship for the South of France invasion in August 1944.[1] From April to August 1945 was with the East Indies Fleet as part of the 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron. Khedive was to take part in the invasion of Singapore in September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace. But with the Japanese surrender, she was merely deployed to the island for security.
She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as Rempang (later Daphne). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975.
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