Attacker-class escort carrier

The Attacker class were a class of escort aircraft carriers in service with the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Having already converted six diesel-powered C3 cargo ships into escort carriers (three of them becoming the British Avenger class), shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor the United States Navy earmarked 22 additional C3 vessels, these powered by steam turbines, for conversion into further carriers. While some classify all these ships, and 23 others, as members of the Bogue class, in fact the Bogue class proper consisted only of eleven of the 22, which were retained by the U.S. Navy; while the remaining eleven were transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of the Lend-Lease program, and were redesignated as the Attacker class. A number of British sources suggest that the three ships built by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding--HMS Ravager, HMS Searcher, and HMS Tracker--should actually be considered part of the succeeding Ruler class, and not as Attackers; but in the absence of a clear consensus we will treat them as part of this class.
The ships were originally intended to serve as convoy escort carriers, equipped with both anti-submarine and fighter aircraft...