The USS Baffins (CVE-35) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier laid down on July 18, 1942, and launched on October 18, the same year. It was commissioned on July 20, 1943, as HMS Ameer with the hull number D-01 under the United Kingdom’s flag and served in the Royal Navy for 3 years until it was decommissioned on March 20, 1946. During its activity, the ship carried a complement of 890 men on board and had its main missions in Vancouver, Trincomalee, Akyab, Cheduba Island, Malaya, and Phuket Island. After the decommissioning, the ship was transferred back to the USA and sold for scrapping in 1969 in Taiwan.
Because of its miraculous fire-resistant properties, asbestos was widely used in the marine sector in its processed form. The mineral could be found virtually everywhere on a ship from bow to stern, but typically it would be found in places like boiler cladding, pipes, electrical cables, the wall and ceiling panels and the fire insulation behind them, the concrete and tiling on the floor, pumps, valves, and adhesives.
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