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Uss Hamlin (Cve-15) | colspan="2"| | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack Royal Navy Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 6 October 1941 | | aunched: | 5 March 1942 | | ommissioned (USN): | | | ecommissioned (USN): | | | ommissioned (RN): | 21 December 1942 | | ecommissioned (RN): | 29 December 1945 | | ate: | Sold as a merchant ship | | truck: | 20 March 1946 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 14,400 tons | | ength: | 491 ft 6 in (150 m) | | eam: | 105 ft (32 m) | | raught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) | | ropulsion: | Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) | | peed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) | | ange: | | | omplement: | 646 officers and enlisted | | rmament: | 2 x 4 in (102 mm), 8 x 40 mm, 20 x 20 mm guns | | ircraft: | 20 | | otto: | The USS Hamlin (CVE-15) was one of a large group of escort aircraft carriers built on Maritime Commission C-3 hulls and transferred to the United Kingdom under lend-lease during World War II. Launched by Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco, California, 5 March 1942, as AVG-15, aircraft escort vessel, she was sponsored by Mrs. William H. Shea. Her designation was changed to ACV-15, auxiliary aircraft carrier, 20 August 1942, and she was acquired and simultaneously transferred to the United Kingdom 21 December 1942. Hamlin's designation was changed to CVE-15, escort aircraft carrier, 15 July 1943. Renamed HMS ''Stalker, the escort carrier played a vital part in allied operations in the Atlantic. She participated in the Salerno landings in September 1943, providing effective on the spot air support for assault forces. Stalker also took part in the important landings in southern France in August 1944. Returned to the United States 29 December 1945, she was struck from the Navy Register 20 March 1946 and sold to Waterman Steamship Corp. of Mobile, Alabama, 18 December 1946. Waterman in turn sold her to The Netherlands in August 1947 where she was converted to the merchant ship Riouw. Later renamed Lobito'' in 1968, she was scrapped in Taiwan in September 1975. Hamlin
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