HMS Chaser (D32)

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Career

Laid down:	28 June 1941
Launched:	15 February 1942
Commissioned (USN):	9 April 1943
Decommissioned (USN):	1946?
Commissioned (RN):	9 April 1943
Decommissioned (RN):	12 May 1946
Struck:	1946?
Fate:	Destroyed in 1972 or 1973
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,400 tons
Length:	491 ft 6 in (150 m)
Beam:	105 ft (32 m)
Draught:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion:	Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	646 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 × 4 in (102 mm), 8 × 40 mm, 20 × 20 mm guns
Aircraft:	28
Motto:

The USS Breton (CVE-10) (originally AVG-10 then later ACV-10) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier that served during World War II.

She was laid down on 28 June 1941 under Maritime Commission contract at Pascagoula, Mississippi by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The ship was commissioned by the United States Navy on 9 April 1943 and simultaneously transferred via the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom. That same day, the ship was renamed HMS Chaser (D32) and commissioned by the Royal Navy. The Chaser was assigned to convoy escort on Arctic routes, assisting in the sinking of U-472 on 4 March 1944 and U-366 and U-973 in the next two days.

The carrier was returned to United States' custody 12 May 1946 and sold into merchant service 20 December 1946 as Aagtekerk. The ship was renamed E Yung in 1967.

Records on the matter are unclear, but the ship was apparently either burned and run ashore at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 20 December 1972 or sank on 4 December 1973.