HMS Begum (D38)
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| Career |  | United States Navy Jack |
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| Laid down: | 15 May 1941 |
| Launched: | 22 May 1942 |
| Commissioned (RN): | 9 January 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 February 1946 |
| Fate: | merchant ship, scrapped 1974 |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 9,800 tons |
| Length: | 496 ft (151 m) |
| Beam: | 69.5 ft (21.2 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots (34 km/h) |
| Complement: | 646 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 4 inch (102 mm) guns, 2 × 40 mm Bofors, 35 × 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft: | 24 |
The
USS Bolinas (CVE-36) (originally
AVG-36, then later
ACV-36) was an
escort aircraft carrier launched
11 November 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp.,
Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. G. B. Sherwood, wife of Commander Sherwood; and commissioned
22 July 1943, Captain H. L. Meadow in command.
On
2 August 1943 after being decommissioned
Bolinas was transferred to the
United Kingdom under
Lend-Lease and renamed
HMS Begum (D38).
Begum served with the
Royal Navy during
World War II and after her return was declared surplus by the U. S. Navy. She was stricken for disposal
19 June 1946 and sold by the Navy into merchant service
16 April 1947 as
Raki and later
I Yung. She was scrapped in
Taiwan in March 1974.
* See
USS Bolinas and
HMS Begum for other ships of these names.
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