HMS EMPRESS (D42)

(Redirected from USS Carnegie (CVE-38))

Career	Royal Navy Ensign
Laid down:	9 September 1942
Launched:	30 December 1942
Commissioned ''(RN)'':	12 August 1943
Decommissioned:	28 March 1946
Fate:	sold for scrap
General Characteristics
Displacement:	7,800 tons
Length:	495.66 ft (151.1 m)
Beam:	69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Draft:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed:	17.5 knots
Complement:	890 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 5 inch guns, 4 × twin 40 mm Bofors, 10 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft:	28

The 'USS ''Carnegie'' (CVE-38)' (previously 'AVG-38' then later 'ACV-38') was an escort aircraft carrier built in 1942-43 for transfer to the United Kingdom. She was reclassified ACV-38 on 20 August 1942, and CVE-38 on 15 July 1943. She was commissioned on 9 August 1943 for a period of three days prior to being turned over to the United Kingdom, under whom she served as 'HMS ''Empress'' (D42)'. During World War II, she served in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans. On 28 January 1946, she was restored to United States custody, was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 March 1946 and was sold for scrap 21 June 1946.

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See also

★ See USS ''Carnegie'' and HMS ''Empress'' for other ships of these names.

★ Andrew Carnegie

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