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Ship Launched Converted Notes Ariguani: 1926 [1] 1940 Former ocean boarding vessel, converted to a catapult ship in 1940, war service in the Atlantic [2] after being damaged repaired in 1943 and returned to merchant use. Maplin: 1940 Former ocean boarding vessel. Maplin saw war service in the Atlantic in 1940. She was a training ship from 1941 ...
The Hawker Sea Hurricane W9182 on the catapult of a CAM ship. CAM ships were World War II–era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. CAM ship is an acronym for catapult aircraft merchant ship. [1]
HMS Springbank was a Royal Navy fighter catapult ship of the Second World War.. Originally a cargo ship built in 1926 for Bank Line it was acquired by the Admiralty at the start of the war and converted to an "auxiliary anti-aircraft cruiser" by the addition of four twin 4-inch (102 mm) gun turrets and two quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) "pom-pom"s.
Some had their aircraft and catapult removed during World War II e.g. HMS Duke of York, or before (HMS Ramillies). An IMAM Ro.43 floatplane catapulted by a RM cruiser in the early 1940s During World War II a number of ships were fitted with rocket-driven catapults, first the fighter catapult ships of the Royal Navy, then armed merchantmen known ...
[1] The role of the MSFU was to provide pilots, crews, support personnel and aircraft to operate from 35 merchant ships outfitted with a catapult on the bow, referred to as Catapult Aircraft Merchant ships , a stop-gap initiative to provide air support to convoys out of reach of land in the early part of the war when aircraft carriers were scarce.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Each such ship had a single aircraft, a Fairey Fulmar, a long range naval fighter that could be launched using a catapult. Three of these five ships were sunk in 1941. Beginning in 1941, Britain converted 35 cargo or transport ships to catapult aircraft merchant ships (CAM ships). Like the fighter catapult ships, the CAM ships carried only one ...
Fighter catapult ships (FACs) and catapult aircraft merchant ships (CAMs) were used early in the Atlantic Theater for convoy protection as stop-gap measures until more escort carriers became available. In the Pacific Theater, some battleships and cruisers had catapult-launched aircraft principally for scouting.