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{{Short description|Escort carrier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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 |name=USS ''Cordova''
 |namesake=[[Cordova Bay]] in Alaska
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 |laid_down= 22 September 1942
 |launched= 30 January 1943
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 |fate= Transferred to [[Royal Navy]]
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 |country=United Kingdom
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 |name=HMS ''Khedive''
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 |commissioned= 25 August 1943
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 |decommissioned=19 July 1946
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 |identification=[[Pennant number]]:D62
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 |fate= Sold as merchant ship; for scrap 1975
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 |class=*{{sclass|Bogue|escort carrier}} (USA)
        *{{sclass|Ruler|escort carrier}} (UK)
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 |displacement= 16,620&nbsp;tons (full)
 |length= {{convert|495|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}}
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 |propulsion=Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500&nbsp;shp (6.3&nbsp;MW)
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 |complement=646 officers and men
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 |armament=*2 × [[4"/50 caliber gun|4"/50]], [[5"/38 caliber gun|5"/38]] or [[5"/51 caliber gun|5"/51]] guns
           *8 × twin [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm Bofors]]
           *35 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm Oerlikon]]
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'''USS ''Cordova'' (CVE-39)''' (originally '''AVG-39''' then later '''ACV-39''') was an [[escort carrier]] launched 27 December 1942 by [[Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding]] of [[Tacoma, Washington]]; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell.  Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, ''Cordova'' was transferred to the [[Royal Navy]] on 25 August 1943, as '''HMS ''Khedive'' (D62)'''

''Khedive'' served as the command ship for the Allied [[operation Dragoon|landings in southern France]], in August 1944.<ref>former officers HMS ''Khedive''</ref> From April to August 1945, she was with the [[East Indies Fleet]] as part of the [[21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron]].  ''Khedive'' was to take part in the invasion of Singapore in September 1945, codenamed [[Operation Tiderace]]. But with the Japanese surrender, she was merely deployed to the island for security.

She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as ''Rempang'' (later ''Daphne'').  She was sold for scrap in [[Spain]] in 1975.

==Design and description==
These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers. They were also all laid down as escort carriers and not converted [[merchant ship]]s.<ref name=co82/> All the ships had a complement of 646 men and an [[Length overall|overall length]] of {{convert|492|ft|3|in|1}}, a [[Beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|69|ft|6|in|1}} and a draught of {{Convert|25|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}.<ref name=co82>Cocker (2008), p.82.</ref> Propulsion was provided by a steam turbine, two boilers connected to one shaft giving {{convert|9,350|shp|lk=in}}, which could propel the ship at {{convert|16.5|kn|lk=in}}.<ref name=co79>Cocker (2008), p.79.</ref>

Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge–flight control on the [[starboard]] side, two aircraft lifts {{convert|43|ft|1}} by {{convert|34|ft|1}}, one [[aircraft catapult]] and nine [[Arresting gear|arrestor wires]].<ref name=co82>Cocker (2008), p.82.</ref> Aircraft could be housed in the {{convert|260|ft|1}} by {{convert|62|ft|1}} hangar below the flight deck.<ref name=co82/> Armament comprised: two [[4"/50 caliber gun|4"/50]], [[5"/38 caliber gun|5"/38]] or [[5"/51 caliber gun|5"/51]] [[Dual purpose gun|Dual Purpose]] guns in single mounts, sixteen [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40&nbsp;mm Bofors]] [[anti-aircraft gun]]s in twin mounts and twenty [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20&nbsp;mm Oerlikon]] anti-aircraft cannons in single mounts.<ref name=co82/> They had a maximum aircraft capacity of twenty-four aircraft which could be a mixture of Hellcat, [[Vought F4U Corsair]] or [[Hawker Hurricane variants#Sea Hurricanes|Hawker Sea Hurricane]] [[fighter aircraft]] and or [[Grumman Avenger]] [[anti-submarine]] aircraft.<ref name=co82/>

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==References==
* {{cite book|last=Cocker|first=Maurice|year=2008|title=Aircraft-Carrying Ships of the Royal Navy|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire|isbn=978-0-7524-4633-2}}

{{Bogue class escort carrier}}
{{Type C3-S-A1 ships}}

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[[Category:Ruler-class escort carriers]]
[[Category:Ships built in Tacoma, Washington]]
[[Category:1943 ships]]