Year: 1989 Language: english Author: Kenneth Poolman Genre: History Publisher: Sterling Pub Edition: Warships fotofax Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 52 Description: In the autumn of 1940, Captain Matthew Slattery, RN, Director of Materiel for the Fleet Air Arm, was urging My Lords of Admiralty to 'fit the simplest possible flight decks and landing equipment to suitable merchant ships. . .' Almost simultaneously, Rear-Admiral William Halsey, Commander, Aircraft Battle Force, United States Navy, was telling Admiral Harold Stark, Commanding US Naval Forces, Europe: 'If the USA is drawn into this war, the Navy's six big carriers will have to go on duty immediately, leaving no means of training carrier pilots or transporting planes. You must find some suitable merchantmen and convert them into auxiliarv carriers.' US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, Admiral Emory Land, that naval aircraft were too fast and heavy for converted merchantmen to handle, but President Roosevelt, influenced by the other 'Naval Person' Winston Churchill, who wanted the USA to build auxiliary carriers and lend some of them to Britain, 'recommended' to the Chief of Naval Operations the conversion of a 'merchant ship, 6,000 to 8,000 tons displacement, speed not less than 15 knots', to operate ten aircraft with low landing speeds for convoy anti-submarine protection. With every such vessel selected a second should be converted for the Royal Navy. Thus were Escort Carriers born, the first of a total of 133, comprising five built in Britain, 128 in the USA, 38 of the latter being lent to the RN.
Contents
The book contains many photos of escort aircraft carriers.
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Escort carriers of World War Two
Language: english
Author: Kenneth Poolman
Genre: History
Publisher: Sterling Pub
Edition: Warships fotofax
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 52
Description: In the autumn of 1940, Captain Matthew Slattery, RN, Director of Materiel for the Fleet Air Arm, was urging My Lords of Admiralty to 'fit the simplest possible flight decks and landing equipment to suitable merchant ships. . .' Almost simultaneously, Rear-Admiral William Halsey, Commander, Aircraft Battle Force, United States Navy, was telling Admiral Harold Stark, Commanding US Naval Forces, Europe: 'If the USA is drawn into this war, the Navy's six big carriers will have to go on duty immediately, leaving no means of training carrier pilots or transporting planes. You must find some suitable merchantmen and convert them into auxiliarv carriers.'
US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, Admiral Emory Land, that naval aircraft were too fast and heavy for converted merchantmen to handle, but President Roosevelt, influenced by the other 'Naval Person' Winston Churchill, who wanted the USA to build auxiliary carriers and lend some of them to Britain, 'recommended' to the Chief of Naval Operations the conversion of a 'merchant ship, 6,000 to 8,000 tons displacement, speed not less than 15 knots', to operate ten aircraft with low landing speeds for convoy anti-submarine protection. With every such vessel selected a second should be converted for the Royal Navy.
Thus were Escort Carriers born, the first of a total of 133, comprising five built in Britain, 128 in the USA, 38 of the latter being lent to the RN.
Contents
The book contains many photos of escort aircraft carriers.Screenshots
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