AVG-10 was named Breton, for a sound in Louisiana, located between the Mississippi River delta and the mainland.

The Royal Navy renamed her Chaser. "Chaser" is one that chases, or pursues, another.

(Map courtesy of Google Maps.)

Ship's badge. Per fess wavy white and green; a greyhound courant, in black.

The green in this design references the grass greyhound racing track at the White City Stadium, London, and the motto (Venando victor, "Victorious by chasing") reflects the result of the contest.

HMS Chaser (D32/R306) underway on 20 June 1943, showing single 20-mm guns on her forecastle and twin 40-mm guns in the forward deck-edge sponsons. Three Avenger strike aircraft are ranged aft. U.S. National Archives photo.

Photo and text from Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, by Roger Chesneau.

HMS Chaser, date and location unknown.

HMS Chaser (D32), commanded by Captain H.V.P. McClintock, at anchor at Greenock, Scotland, date unknown. Photo taken by Lt. S.J. Beadell, Royal Navy official photographer. Photo # A 17859 from the collections of the Imperial War Museum.

HMS Chaser (D32), commanded by Captain H.V.P. McClintock, at anchor at Greenock, Scotland, date unknown. Photo taken by Lt. S.J. Beadell, Royal Navy official photographer. Photo # A 17861 from the collections of the Imperial War Museum.

"Possibly an 835 Sqn. Sea Hurricane on board HMS Chaser 1943. Folded Swordfish of Squadron ahead."

"Gibraltar Convoy - Sea Hurricane landing (possibly 835 Squadron) on HMS Chaser 1943."

British aircraft carrier HMS Chaser (D32). Photographed by ZP-14 from Naval Air Station, Weeksville, North Carolina, 23 April 1943, the day she arrived in Norfolk Navy Yard.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # 80-G-64298.

Taken from the Telegraphist Air Gunner's position in a just launched Swordfish of 835 Squadron, while escorting Russian Convoy JW57 in February 1944. Note her narrow beam.

HMS Chaser arriving at Cochin on the Malabar Coast of India, July 1945, with her flight deck packed with Corsairs, Seafires and Avengers. The aircraft were to be delivered to the Reception Unit, Royal Naval Air Station Cochin. Some arrived practically fully assembled lashed to the flight deck. Others arrived in packing cases. Photo taken by unknown Royal Navy photographer. Photo No A 29289 from the Imperial War Museum Collections.

HMS Chaser as R306, circa 1945.

Photo from the collection of Paul Silverstone.

The escort carrier HMS Chaser at Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour, showing her pennant number R306. Courtesy of Sea Power Centre-Australia. Pennant numbers of this type were allocated to British and Commonwealth ships operating alongside the US Navy.

Image scanned from The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force, by David Hobbs (Seaforth Publishing).

The NV Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maatschappij cargo ship SS Aagtekerk (ex-HMS Chaser). Photo Ambrose Greenway Collection.

Scanned from Wartime Standard Ships, by Nick Robins, Pub by Seaforth Publishing, a division of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S70 2AS. ISBN 9781848323766.

A glimpse view of Aagtekerk (ex-Breton, ex-HMS Chaser) working cargo in the port of Bremen, Germany, circa 1954. From an out-of-print port promotion brochure (mid-Fifties).

Ex-Breton, ex-HMS Chaser, as Aagtekerk, berthed in Bremen, Germany, in the late 1950s. Published in a Bremen Port promotion brochure in 1960.

Ex-Breton, ex-HMS Chaser, as Aagtekerk (Dutch flag), in Bremerhaven, Germany, April 1967.