HMS Shah

HMS Shah (D21) was an escort carrier which served in the British Royal Navy during World War Ii. She was laid down, under a contract let by the United States Maritime Commission, as MC Hull 254, at the Tacoma, Washington yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, on 13 November 1942, and, sponsored by Mrs. C. T. Simard, was launched on 21 April 1943. She was commissioned into the U.S. Navy under the placeholder name of USS Jamaica (originally AVG-43, then later ACV-43, and finally CVE-43), transferred to Britain, decommissioned as a U.S. Navy ship, and recommissioned as HMS Shah, all on the same day, 27 September 1943.