HMS Nabob (D77)

Nabob returning home after being torpedoed in August 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Edisto
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	20 October 1942
Launched	22 March 1943
Identification	AVG-41 ACV-41 CVE-41
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Nabob
Commissioned	7 September 1943
Decommissioned	10 October 1944
Identification	Pennant number D77
Fate	Returned to US 1946, sold for scrap, but resold for conversion to mercantile use
Name	Nabob (1952–67) Glory (1967–77)
Port of registry	West Germany (1952–67) Panama (1967–77)
In service	1952
Out of service	1977
Identification	IMO number: 5245045
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1977
General characteristics
Class and type	Ruler-class escort carrier (UK)
Displacement	11,400 long tons (11,600 t) (standard) 15,390 long tons (15,640 t) (full)
Length	492 ft 3 in (150.0 m)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) wl 108 ft 6 in (33.1 m) max
Draught	25 ft 5 in (7.7 m)
Installed power	2 × Foster Wheeler boilers 8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Allis-Chalmers geared steam turbine 1 shaft
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h)
Range	27,500 nmi (50,930 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) max
Endurance	3,160 long tons (3,210 t) fuel oil
Complement	646
Sensors and processing systems	SG surface search radar SK air search radar
Armament	2 × 5-inch (127 mm)/51 cal. guns 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors guns 14 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 7 × single Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Aircraft carried	18–24
Aviation facilities	450 ft × 80 ft (137 m × 24 m) flight deck 260 ft × 62 ft × 18 ft (79 m × 19 m × 5 m) hangar

HMS Nabob (D77) was a Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States as the Bogue-class USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) but did not serve with the United States Navy. In August 1944 the ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 while participating in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz. Nabob survived the attack, but upon returning to port, was considered too damaged to repair. The escort carrier remained in port for the rest of the war and was returned to the United States following it. Nabob is one of two Royal Navy escort carriers built in the United States which is listed as lost in action (both of which were damaged beyond repair, but returned) during World War II. The ship was sold for scrap by the United States but found a second life when purchased and converted for mercantile use under her British name, Nabob. Later renamed Glory, the ship was sold for scrapping in 1977.