HMS Ravager 581st Signal Co.at Inchon (1950)
HMS Ravager - Ferry Carrier

HMS Ravager (D-70) was built as an Attacker class escort carrier in the USA at Seattle-Tacoma. Like their predecessors they were converted from mercantile hulls. The RN undertook essential alterations to the aviation fuel systems, and lengthened the flight deck. Once the ships were ready for action they soon proved themselves, both as convoy escorts and fighter support ships for amphibious landings.

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HMS Ravager saw war service in the Atlantic with 835 (wildcat) and 804 (hellcat) squadrons embarked between September and October 1943, but subsequently she was used mainly as a DLT training, Ravager becoming one of the main RN training carriers which was operating in the North Sea off the Scottish coast. Training DLTs training of Ravager included many squadrons over the period, and included such as the Sea Hurricane of 760 squadron from RNAS Inskip in October, 1944. Ravager was returned to the USN on 26 February 1946, and became mercantile Robin Trent In 1948. The Trent was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1973.