| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Escort Carrier |
| Class | Attacker |
| Pennant | D 32 |
| Built by | Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. (Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 28 Jun 1941 |
| Launched | 19 Jun 1942 |
| Commissioned | 9 Apr 1943 |
| End service | 12 May 1946 |
| History | Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease. |
| Former name | USS Breton (i) |
Commands listed for HMS Chaser (D 32)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | A/Capt. Hubert Victor Perry McClintock, DSO, RN | 1 Feb 1943 | 15 Jan 1945 |
| 2 | Capt. Robert Godman Poole, RN | 15 Jan 1945 | 12 May 1946 |
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Notable events involving Chaser include:
9 Feb 1944
HMS Vox (Lt. J.M. Michell, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with aircraft from HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN) and HMS Philante (Cdr. L.F. Durnford-Slater, RN) as well as ships from the 3rd Escort Group. (1)
4 Mar 1944
German U-boat U-472 was sunk (or maybe scuttled by it's own crew) in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73°05'N, 26°40'E, by gunfire and rockets from the British destroyer HMS Onslaught (Cdr. the Hon. A. Pleydell-Bouverie, RN) and Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 816) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN).
5 Mar 1944
German U-boat U-366 was sunk in the Arctic Ocean north-west of Hammerfest, in position 72°10'N, 14°44'E, by rockets from a Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 816) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN).
6 Mar 1944
German U-boat U-973 was sunk in the Norwegian Sea north-west of Narvik, Norway, in position 70°04'N, 05°48'E, by rockets from a Swordfish aircraft (816 Sqn FAA/X) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN).
Sources
- ADM 173/19443
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.