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In 1940, Captain M. S. Slattery RN, Director of Air Material at the Admiralty, proposed a scheme for converting merchant ships into aircraft carriers as a follow-up to the CAM ship project. [2] [3] Slattery proposed fitting a flight deck equipped with two arrester wires and a safety barrier onto an existing merchant ship
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft , which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships , which are used for military purposes.
Merchant ships of the United States include merchant ships built, designed, or operated in or by the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 30 ...
Merchant ships include ships designed to carry commercial cargo, or those used in such capacity. This is a container category . Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories .
Catapult aircraft merchantmen, merchant ships which carried cargo and an aircraft catapult (no flight deck). Escort carriers, usually converted merchant ships, see separate List of escort carriers by country. "Landing craft carriers" such as USS LST-906, which were modified amphibious landing ships, because they could not recover their aircraft.
She was used as a stores ship and then as an accommodation ship before a refit and subsequent use as a merchant aircraft ferry ship, Empire Lagan. She was returned to the US Navy, then laid up as Archer before being sold into merchant service and converted to a passenger ship, Anna Salén. She was used to take emigrants to Australia and Canada ...
This list of passenger ship companies is of companies that own and operate passenger ships, including cruise ships, cargo-passenger ships, and ferries (for passengers and automobiles). For the list of companies that own and operate freight ships ( bulk carriers , car carriers , container ships , roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers ...
List of ships built by Harland and Wolff; List of ships built at Hietalahti shipyard; List of ships of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company; List of ships built by John Brown & Company; List of LB&SCR ships; List of London and North Western Railway ships; List of P&O Ferries ships; Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)#British shipping companies