page_title: USS Charger (CVE-30)
section_title: Post-war service
hierarchical_section_title: USS Charger (CVE-30) / Career / Post-war service
caption_attribution_description: English: Vlasov group's emigrant ship MV Fairsea, formerly the escort carrier USS Charger (CVE-30)
context_page_description: USS Charger (CVE-30) was an escort carrier of the United States Navy during World War II.
  Planned as the third of four C-P-3 cargo/passenger liners of the C3 design for the Moore-McCormack company, the ship was launched on 1 March 1941 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania; named Rio de la Plata, it was sponsored by Mrs. Felipe A. Espil. On 20 May 1941, the United States Maritime Commission requisitioned all four unfinished combiliners, for conversion to military use.
context_section_description: USS Charger was decommissioned at New York on 15 March 1946. Sold into merchant service on 30 January 1947 to the Vlasov group, after conversion the vessel became the passenger liner Fairsea, nominally for Vlasov's Italian managed Sitmar Line. Successive accommodation upgrades secured the vessel's long-term employment, mainly as a migrant carrier from Europe to Australia.
  Fairsea was disabled by an engine-room fire between Tahiti and Panama on 29 January 1969. Primarily due to a lack of spare parts she was sold for scrap in Italy in 1969. Her last surviving former sister Biter (later the French Navy's Dixmude), had been returned to the United States and sunk as a target in 1966.
caption: The ship as Fairsea
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