HMS Thane D48 British Escort Carrier

HMS Thane D48

Launched as USS Sunset (CVE-48) on 15 July 1943 and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease agreement on 19 November and commissioned the same day as HMS Thane (D48), was a Ruler-class escort carrier in the Royal Navy.

HMS Thane operated in the North Atlantic protecting convoys and ferrying aircraft for use in the European Theatre. On 15 January 1945, while ferrying aircraft in the Irish Sea, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-1172 and severely damaged, losing her starboard aft 5 inch gun and its sponson, disabling propulsion, and losing 10 men. Taken to Gare Loch in the Firth of Clyde, southwest Scotland, she was examined, declared a constructive total loss and decommissioned to reserve. She was returned to United States custody while in the United Kingdom on 12 May. Determined to be of no use to the United States Navy, she was slated for disposal in October; and she was subsequently scrapped.

Construction and Launch

Aircraft Deck Handling Practise

HMS Thane in the Royal Navy

Torpedo Damage and Scrapping

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