OK Peter, you had me do my homework properly this time. It seems quite a few RN escort carriers went from the US to Casablanca to ferry USAAC aircraft. Here we go:
HMS ARCHER, convoy UGF.2, sailed from NY carrying 35 P-40Fs on 2.11.1942 with Torch naval forces of TF.38 (second wave), and lands them at Casablanca after Nov. 11; arrives at Gibraltar on Nov.18 (a photo tomorrow).
HMS HUNTER and HMS STALKER together, from NY & Norfolk 5.3.1943 with convoy UGF.6, to Casablanca 16.3.1943 then on to Gibraltar (there 20.3.1943 for STALKER) & UK.
HMS TRACKER from NY 3.5.1943 in convoy UGF.8, to Casablanca 10.5.1943, on to Gibraltar 13.5.1943.
HMS QUEEN, from NY 13.6.1944, to Casablanca 27.6.1944.
HMS TROUNCER, sails 18.6.1944 from Norfolk, arrives Casablanca 10.7.1944, leaves 13.7.1944.
HMS PUNCHER, convoy UGF.12 from NY 22.7.1944, arrives 8.8.1944, sails back from Gibraltar on 12.8.1944.
Sources: "Royal Navy Escort Carriers" by David Hobbs, Maritime Books, 2003;
"Allied Escort Carriers of World War Two in Action" by Kenneth Poolman, Blandford Press, 1988.
"Opération 'Torch'. Le Débarquement en Afrique du Nord" by Frédéric Stahl & Gérard Prévoteaux, "Navires & Histoire" no. 52, Febr.-March 2009.



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