HMS Shah (D21)
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| Career (USA) |  |
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| Name: | USS Jamaica |
| Builder: | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 13 November 1942 |
| Launched: | 21 April 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Shah |
| Commissioned: | 27 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 February 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold as merchant ship; sold for scrap 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bogue class escort carrier |
| Displacement: | 7,800 tons |
| Length: | 495 feet 7 inches (151.1 m) |
| Beam: | 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 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: | 890 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns 8 x twin 40 mm Bofors 35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft carried: | 18-24 |
The USS Jamaica (CVE-43) (originally AVG-43 then later ACV-43), was an escort aircraft carrier laid down 13 November 1942 as MC Hull 254 and launched under Maritime Commission contract by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding, (later Todd Pacific), Tacoma, Washington, 21 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. C. T. Simard; reclassified CVE-43 on 15 July 1943; acquired by the United States Navy, and transferred to the United Kingdom under lend-lease 27 September 1943.
One of a large group of escort carriers transferred to the Royal Navy for antisubmarine work in the Atlantic, Jamaica was renamed HMS Shah (D21). Commanded by William John Yendell[1] she took an active part in the war, heading the hunter-killer group which sank U-198 in the Indian Ocean, 12 August 1944 and taking part in the Burma campaign in 1945. She was returned to the United States 6 December 1945 and sold into merchant service 20 June 1947 as Salta. She was scrapped in Buenos Aires in 1966.
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