USS St. Andrews (CVE-49)
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| Career | |
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| Laid down: | 12 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 2 August 1943 |
| Commissioned (RN): | 7 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | July 1947 |
| Fate: | merchant ship |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 8,333 tons |
| Length: | 496' |
| Beam: | 69' 6" |
| Draft: | 23' 3" |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Complement: | 646 officers and men |
| Armament: | 2 x 5-inch guns, 8 x twin 40mm Bofors, 27-35 x single 20mm Oerlikon |
| Aircraft: | 18-24 |
The USS St. Andrews (CVE-49) (originally AVG-49, later ACV-49) was assigned to MC hull 260 on 23 August 1942, a ship to be built to modified C3-S-A1 plans. She was laid down on 12 March 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington; redesignated CVE-49 on 15 July; and launched on 31 July; sponsored by Mrs. Robert W. Morse; transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 7 December; and commissioned the same day as HMS Queen (D19) in the Royal Navy. HMS Queen served British and Allied escort forces in protecting the vital convoy supply effort across the North Atlantic in 1944, and in the Pacific campaigns in 1945. She returned to the United States at Norfolk, Virginia, 31 October 1946. On arrival, Queen was decommissioned by the Royal Navy and was taken over by the U.S. Navy. In excess of Navy needs, CVE-49 was slated, in December, for disposal; struck from the Navy Register in July 1947, sold to the N.V. Stoomv, Maats, Nederland Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands and pressed into merchant service as Roebiah on 29 July 1947 (renamed President Marcos in 1967 and Lucky One in 1972). She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.
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