USS Cordova (CVE-39)

Career
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Laid down:	30 December 1942
Launched:	30 January 1943
Commissioned (RN):	25 August 1943
Decommissioned:	19 July 1946
Fate:	merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1975
General Characteristics
Displacement:	16,620 tons (full)
Length:	495.66 ft
Beam:	69.5 ft
Extreme width:	111.5 ft
Draft:	26 ft
Speed:	18 knots
Complement:	646 officers and men
Armament:	2 x 5-inch guns, 8 x twin 40mm Bofors, 35 x single 20mm Oerlikon
Aircraft:	18-24

The USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an escort aircraft carrier launched 27 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell. Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, Cordova was transferred to the Royal Navy on 25 August 1943, as HMS Khedive. She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as Rempang (later Daphne). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975.