Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Emperor''. A third was planned, but never entered service: * was a steam yacht purchased in 1856 and commissioned in 1857. She was given in 1858, becoming the Japanese . * HMS ''Emperor'' was to have been an

escort carrier The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (U.S. hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft ...

. She was laid down for the Royal Navy in 1942, but was taken over and launched in 1943 as USS ''Nassuk Bay'', and later renamed . * was an ''Ameer''-class escort carrier, originally built as the USS ''Pybus''. She was launched in 1942, transferred to the Royal Navy under

lend-lease Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...

in 1943 and returned to the US Navy in 1946.

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