escort carrier

American  

noun

Navy.

1. a small aircraft carrier used chiefly as an antisubmarine escort for a convoy or task force.

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Etymology

Origin of escort carrier

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

In 1945, during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima, the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk by kamikazes with the loss of 318 men.

From Washington Times • Feb. 21, 2021

He lost his life in fall 1943, when a Japanese torpedo rocked the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay.

From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2018

Mr. Carr, a Boston native, served as a Navy pilot during World War II and survived the sinking of the escort carrier Block Island off the Canary Islands in 1944.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2018

Aircraft from the Royal Navy's escort carrier H.M.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

For two years the Kalinin Bay escort carrier steamed through the thick of it, in the Marianas, the China Sea, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

From Time Magazine Archive