Casablanca class escort carrier
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The Casablanca class of escort aircraft carriers was the largest class of this type ever built. 50 of these were laid down, launched and commissioned within the space of a year, 1943 and 1944.
They were built by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company in Vancouver, Washington on the Columbia River.
The hull numbers are consecutive, from CVE-55 (Casablanca) to CVE-104 (Munda).
Originally, half of their number were to be transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, but instead they were retained in the US Navy and the Batch II Bogue-class escort carriers were transferred instead as the HMS Ameer class (the RN's Batch I Bogues were the HMS Attacker class).