HMS Atheling (D51)

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Career

Laid down:	9 June 1942
Launched:	7 September 1942
Commissioned (RN):	1 August 1943
Decommissioned:	7 February 1947
Fate:	merchant ship, sold for scrap, 1967
General Characteristics
Displacement:	7,800 tons
Length:	495.66 ft (151 m)
Beam:	69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Extreme width:	111.5 ft (34 m)
Draft:	23.25 ft (7.1 m)
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	890 officers and men
Armament:	2 × 5 inch (127 mm) guns
Aircraft:	18-24

The second USS Glacier (CVE-33) (originally designated AVG-33 then later ACV-33) was an escort aircraft carrier built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. (later Todd Pacific Shipbuilding) of Tacoma, Washington, under Maritime Commission Contract. Glacier was launched 7 September 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Richard P. Luker, and commissioned 12 July 1943, Comdr. Ward C. Gilbert in command. Her designation was changed to CVE-33 on 15 July 1943.

Glacier was one of a large group of escort carriers transferred to the United Kingdom under lend-lease. She was transferred 31 July 1943 at Vancouver, British Columbia, and served during World War II as the HMS Atheling (D51). Atheling put in to Norfolk, Virginia, 6 December 1946 for return to the United States. Her name was stricken from the Naval Register 7 February 1947 and she was sold to National Bulk Carriers, Inc. as the merchant ship Roma 26 November 1947. She was scrapped in Italy in November 1967.