USS Baffins (CVE-35)

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Laid down:18 July 1942
Launched:18 October 1942
Commissioned (RN):20 July 1943
Decommissioned:20 March 1946
Fate:merchant ship, scrapped 1969
General Characteristics
Displacement:8,333 tons
Length:495.66 ft (151 m)
Beam:69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Draft:26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed:17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement:890 officers and men
Armament:2 x 5 inch (127 mm) guns
Aircraft:24

The escort carrier USS Baffins (CVE-35) (originally AVG-35, then later ACV-35) was launched 18 October 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Laurance Bennett, wife of Commander Bennett; and commissioned 28 June 1943, Captain W. L. Rees in command.

Baffins remained at Puget Sound Navy Yard until 18 July 1943. Her classification was changed to CVE-35 on 15 July 1943. On the 18th she proceeded to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she was decommissioned the following day and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease.

During World War II she was operated by the British as HMS Ameer and she served in operations off Burma and Malaya. She was returned 17 January 1946 and sold into merchant service by the Navy 17 September 1946 as Robin Kirk. She was later scrapped in Taiwan in 1969.


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