HMS Activity (D94)

HMS Activity (D94)

HMS Activity was an escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom during World War II. She was built at Caledon shipyards in Dundee. When construction started in 1940 she was intended to become the merchant ship "Telemachus" for the Alfred Holt Line. However, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted to an escort carrier, entering service at the end of 1942.

"Activity" operated initially as a flight training carrier during 1943, then taking part in convoy escort duties in the North Atlantic and Arctic theatres in 1944. She was used in Arctic convoys as British construction was deemed more durable in the extreme cold than American welded vessels. In April 1944 her aircraft, together with those from HMS "Tracker" were responsible for the sinking of U-boat U-288, during convoy JW-58.

Later in 1944 she was used as a ferry carrier, transporting aircraft, personnel and supplies to and from the Far East, until and immediately after the end of the war. After returning to the UK for the final time as a military ship in October 1945 she was decommissioned and placed in the reserve fleet. "Activity" was sold in April 1946 and converted to the merchant ship "Breconshire" of the Glen Line. She was finally scrapped in Japan in 1967.

See also

* List of escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
* List of World War II ships

References

*cite web | title=Royal Navy Research Archive | url=http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/ACTIVITY.htm
*cite web | title=uboat.net | url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3295.html
*cite web | title=World Aircraft Carrier Lists | url=http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/uk_esc.htm#d94


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