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| Career |   |
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| Laid down: | 20 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 March 1943 |
| Commissioned (RN): | 7 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 March 1946 |
| Fate: | merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1977 |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 15,390 tons (full) |
| Length: | 495.66 ft |
| Beam: | 69.5 ft |
| Draft: | 25.5 ft |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Complement: | 1,000 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 x 5-inch guns, 8 x twin 40mm Bofors, 20 x single 20mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft: | 18-24 |
The USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) was an escort aircraft carrier that was laid down 20 October 1942, launched 22 March 1943, transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom 7 September 1943 prior to her commissioning as the HMS Nabob. She served as an ASW carrier and was manned by the Royal Canadian Navy. On 22 August 1944, she was torpedoed by U-354 in the Barents Sea and received heavy damage. Five days later, she steamed into Scapa Flow under her own power, but had lost 21 men. She was eventually judged not worth repairing, was beached and abandoned, cannibalized for other ships and decommissioned 30 September 1944. She was returned to United States custody and sold into merchant service 26 October 1946 as the merchant Nabob (later renamed Glory). She was sold for scrap in Taiwan in 1977.
