Background Information UC-1*

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RichCam

The upper hull # matches but someone took a cutting torch to the ends of the angle iron reinforcement at the rear of the carrier. All that remains of the lower hull # is 0 C.
Would someone out there be able to give me an educated guess on the following:
The lower hull # ending in 0?
The CT number for this UC-1*?
Did this carrier go overseas?

My. Mk.1* is 14606 made March 1943 to the same contract. It never went overseas (and I doubt yours did if it was found in Canada). My CT number is CT 113649. You might be 'close' if you backed it up (14606-13710=896. CT 113649-896=CT 112753) I say close because I found a carrier three serials away from mine yet the CT number was 10 away...but that could just be because on that day they were stamping CT numbers left to right and the shiny new UC's were formed up right to left.