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Escort
Carrier. Length 30 inches. 4 sheets.
Charger (AVG-30) was launched 1 March 1941 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock
Co., Chester, Pa.; as Rio la Playa; sponsored by Mrs. F. Espil; commissioned
as HMS Charger (BAVG-4), Captain George Abel-Smith, RN, in command;
transferred to the U.S. Navy 4 October 1941, reclassified AVG-30, 24 January
1942; commissioned 3 March 1942, Captain T. L. Sprague in command; and
reported to the Atlantic Fleet. Charger's area of operations throughout the
war was Chesapeake Bay, and her duty the basic task of training pilots' and
ships' crews in carrier operations. Men trained on her decks played an
important role in the successful contest for the Atlantic with hostile submarines
carried out by the escort carrier groups. Reclassified ACV-30 on 20 August
1942, and CVE-30 on 15 July 1943, Charger left Chesapeake Bay for two ferry
voyages, one to Bermuda in October 1942, and one to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in September 1945.
4 SHEET
PLAN
1/4192
SCALE
TPSW-910
PRICE:
$ 40.00
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