Daily Event for July 16


July 16, 1942 CVE-24 was launched at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding. The escort carrier went to the Royal Navy
as HMS Ravager D-70. After the war she was returned to the USA, who sold her into merchant service. She was
scrapped in 1973.
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