HMS Ruler (D72)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS St. Joseph |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 25 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 21 August 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Ruler |
| Commissioned: | 22 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 January 1946 |
| Struck: | 20 March 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 15,390 tons |
| Length: | 492 feet (150 m) |
| Beam: | 108 feet 6 inches (33.1 m) |
| Draught: | 26 feet (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 646 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried: | 30 |
| Service record | |
| Part of | British Pacific Fleet |
| Operations | Battle of Okinawa |
St. Joseph (AVG/CVE/ACV-50) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier, the first United States Navy ship named for St. Joseph Bay, Florida.
The name St. Joseph was assigned to MC hull 261, a converted C3-S-A1, on 23 August 1942. She was laid down on 25 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington; redesignated CVE-50 on 15 July; launched on 21 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. W.W. Smyth; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend Lease agreement on 22 December 1943; and commissioned the same day as HMS Ruler (D72) in the Royal Navy.
HMS Ruler served in the North Atlantic during 1944 protecting the vital flow of men and war material from the United States to England and to fighting fronts on the European continent. In early 1945, she transferred to the Pacific Theatre and supported the campaign to take Okinawa.
After the war ended, Ruler returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 January 1946; was decommissioned from RN service on 29 January; and was accepted by the U.S. Navy the same day. In excess of the Navy’s needs, she was slated for disposal and struck from the Navy Register on 20 March 1946. She was sold on 13 May and scrapped within the year.
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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