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9 4 3
April
Contractors trials
25th
Commissioned for Royal Navy service as
HMS RAVAGER.
26th
Build completion and commenced sea trials.
May
Completed
Sea trials..
25th
Took passage to Norfolk, Va
via Panama Canal.
July
Passage from Panama
2nd
Embarked 121 AVENGER aircraft at Norfolk
for transport to UK
13th
Arrived at New
York
15th
Took passage from New York Convoy HX248
with call at Halifax
27th
Disembarked aircraft after detaching
from convoy.
28th
Deployed at Greenock
for use as a Deck Landing Training Carrier
August
Deployed in Irish
Sea and Clyde areas for training duties,
to
October
November
Training duties in continuation
29th
Sustained damage in collision with HM
Escort Aircraft PRETORIA
CASTLE in Clyde.
(Note: HMS
PRETORIA CASTLE was also deployed in Clyde
area for Deck
Landing Trials.)
Passage to Clyde
for repair.
December
Under repair
8th
Resumed training duties.
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9 4 4
January
Deck Landing training in continuation
to
Nominated for deployment as a Ferry
Carrier and to be refitted in Clyde shipyard.
March
April
18th
Taken in hand for refit.
May
1st
Resumed Deck Landing training in Clyde.
June
Training duties in continuation
to
September
October
Ceased training duties and embarked
aircraft for transport to USA.
20th
Joined outward Convoy KMF35A for passage
to Gibraltar.
25th
Detached from KMF29A on arrival at Gibraltar
to await passage to USA.
28th
Took passage to Norfolk
with outward Convoy GUF15B.
November
Detached from GUF15B and took passage to Norfolk,
Va.
Embarked aircraft for
transport to UK.
Passage to New York.
Passage to Belfast from New
York
(Note Passage with routine inward convoy
to Clyde to be confirmed.).
26th
Deployed at Belfast
Repair arranged in London
December
Passage to Thames.
1st
Under repair at commercial shipyard.
26th
Arrived in Rosyth to resume Deck Landing
training
(Note: Time on passage suggests some form
of trials in North
Sea. To be
confirmed.)
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9 4 5
January
4th
Carried out trials of Sonar underwater
detection equipment.
(Note: Trials
for aircraft equipment trial to be
confirmed.)
28th
Sustained damage in collision with
mercantile BEN LOMOND.
Passage to Rosyth.
February
11th
Under repair by HM Dockyard Rosyth.
27th
Resumed Deck Landing training duties.
March
Under repair.
to
August