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    HMS Ruler - Bogue Class Carrier in Trials

    I have the honour to be testing a new carrier from Colin's Shipyard, the fitters have been busy at the yard and are about done with a new flat top for the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). She is lovely and will be fine addition to any fleet. Here are some pics....

    We have carried out normal sea trials, tested the ship with the catapault addition and it works great with the plane of your choice I tried Swordfish, Gladiator and Corsair....

    and we did damage control too ...as the pics show....

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    HMS Ruler

    She was a loaner from the US Navy to the Royal Navy and returned to the USN at war's end.

    And her specs:

    Class and type: Bogue class escort carrier
    Displacement: 15,390 tons
    Length: 492 feet (150 m)
    Beam: 108 feet 6 inches (33.07 m)
    Draught: 26 feet (7.9 m)
    Propulsion: Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
    Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
    Complement: 646 officers and men
    Armament: 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns
    8 x twin 40 mm Bofors
    35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon
    Aircraft carried: 30

    Service record
    Part of: British Pacific Fleet
    Operations: Battle of Okinawa

    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 ships.[1] All the ships had a complement of 646 men and a overall length of 492 feet 3 inches (150.0 m), a beam of 69 feet 6 inches (21.2 m) and a draught of 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m).[1] Propulsion was provided a steam turbine, two boilers connected to one shaft giving 9,350 brake horsepower (SHP), which could propel the ship at 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph).[2]

    Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge–flight control on the starboard side, two aircraft lifts 43 feet (13.1 m) by 34 feet (10.4 m), one aircraft catapult and nine arrestor wires.[1] Aircraft could be housed in the 260 feet (79.2 m) by 62 feet (18.9 m) hangar below the flight deck.[1] Armament comprised: two 4 inch Dual Purpose guns in single mounts, sixteen 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns in twin mounts and twenty 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons in single mounts.[1] They had a maximum aircraft capacity of twenty-four aircraft which could be a mixture of Grumman Martlet, Vought F4U Corsair or Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft and Fairey Swordfish or Grumman Avenger anti-submarine aircraft.[1]

    HMS Ruler special info:

    Career (USA) and (UK RN}
    Builder: Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
    Laid down: 25 March 1943
    Launched: 21 August 1943
    Fate: Transferred to Royal Navy
    Career (UK)
    Name: HMS Ruler
    Commissioned: 22 December 1943
    Decommissioned: 29 January 1946
    Struck: 20 March 1946
    Fate: Scrapped 1946
    General characteristics
    Class and type: Bogue class escort carrier
    Displacement: 15,390 tons
    Length: 492 feet (150 m)
    Beam: 108 feet 6 inches (33.07 m)
    Draught: 26 feet (7.9 m)
    Propulsion: Steam turbines, 1 shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW)
    Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
    Complement: 646 officers and men
    Armament: 2 × 5 in (127 mm) guns
    8 x twin 40 mm Bofors
    35 x single 20 mm Oerlikon
    Aircraft carried: 30


    St. Joseph (AVG/CVE/ACV-50) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier, the first United States Navy ship named for St. Joseph Bay, Florida.

    The name St. Joseph was assigned to MC hull 261, a converted C3-S-A1, on 23 August 1942. She was laid down on 25 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington; redesignated CVE-50 on 15 July; launched on 21 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. W.W. Smyth; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend Lease agreement on 22 December 1943; and commissioned the same day as HMS Ruler (D72) in the Royal Navy.

    HMS Ruler served in the North Atlantic during 1944 protecting the vital flow of men and war material from the United States to England and to fighting fronts on the European continent. In early 1945, she transferred to the Pacific Theatre and supported the destruction of Truk and the campaign to take Okinawa.

    After the war ended, Ruler returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 January 1946; was decommissioned from RN service on 29 January; and was accepted by the U.S. Navy the same day. In excess of the Navy’s needs, she was slated for disposal and struck from the Navy Register on 20 March 1946. She was sold on 13 May and scrapped within the year.

    http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-05CVE-Ruler.htm

    She will be released when ready.
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    Sweet! Thanks for the work gents!!:salute:
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    Which sim will she sail in?

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    Huh. Just doing up 4 Attackers/Rulers; Searcher, Puncher, Trumpeter and Attacker, with an embarked Wildcat for each, out of the Crowther-Fitch models for FSX. Bugger finding cam patterns and colors. If you want it, I have a text file of Vallejo's RN paint values and a few admiralty drawings. Probably be released by now, but you cannot find tester who'll test this stuff out and report back..
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