WWII PASSENGER LINE CONVERSION TO CVs?
I was wondering why, given that after Pearl for sure, and Toranto if anyone had any brains, that the CV was THE capital ship of the war, more Passenger liners were not converted to CVs. We actually...
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There was some planing for it but for the allies there was a huge shortage of troop transports compared to what was needed. The big fast passenger liners were used for long distance hauling and the...
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As well as the need for large, fast transports, I suspect new construction, like the Independence Class you mentioned, could be done about as fast as liner conversions and be as good or better as...
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As the Italians and Japanese found out, it wasn't as easy converting liners to CV's as it might appear at first glance. The Japanese were the only ones to commission CV's converted from liners and...
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From what I read the conversions were less than satisfactory. Junyo was probably the biggest, most of the others ended up being on the scale of a CVE like the Casablanca but on higher displacements....
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Quote: From what I read the conversions were less than satisfactory. Junyo was probably the biggest, Exactly. The Junyo and her sister Hiyo were even constructed so as to be particularly suitable for...
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I have looked at Friedmans book US Carriers and a couple of other sources for ships available in the 20s and 30s and there was no real fast ships available for the US. The Leviathian 54,000 tons...
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ISTR reading that one of the pre-war US plans for war with Japan liners being converted to carriers in one part, while the same ships were tagged for use as troop transports in another part.
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Quote:ISTR reading that one of the pre-war US plans for war with Japan liners being converted to carriers in one part, while the same ships were tagged for use as troop transports in another part....
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I think that primarily the liners other possible uses: that of a trooper and a fasttransport negated any advantage that cutting them down would have given: and anyway, they probably would have...
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Quote:Does anyone kknow, however, what the US plan was, in detail, if possible, for the Layfette ex-Normandie before her untimely destruction? According to very brief mention in Friedmans book US...
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The US did convert two great lakes passanger liners into training carriers. These ships were used to train WWII pilots for carrrier landing on Lake Michigan. IIRC the ships were the USS Badger and USS...
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One of the other problems in selecting large (Trans-Atlantic) liners for conversion, was that although the newer vessels possesed a good top end speed, they were optimised for the "Atlantic Ferry",...
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Perhaps the most manuverable carriers in history USS Badger and USS Wolverine both being side wheelers. Regards
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The Germans actually started projects to convert three liners to aircraft carriers. The first was the biggest German liner, the Europa, with a speed of 27 knots, which was intended to carry 42...
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Quote:There was a proposal for a 980 ft high speed liner(no speed given) for transatlantic use in 1928 which would have been built with a flight deck for mail planes but it was not funded and I bet...
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Quote: I wonder if the designers had heard of the British Mail Steamer you posted about here. Yes, I would think so, the same article that was published in the British journal was also republished in...
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