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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 ship's master manoeuvred the ship into the wind and raised a blue flag above his head to authorise the launch. (The ship's master stood on the starboard bridge wing to avoid the catapult rocket blast which sometimes damaged the port side of the bridge.) The CDO waved his blue flag indicating he was ready to launch upon a signal from the pilot.
Gregory, Mackenzie J (2009), "The Development of the Catapult Armed Merchantman (CAM Ships.)", Ahoy - Mac's Web Log Smith, Gordon (18 July 2012), "Major British & Dominion Warship Losses in World War 2 - Aircraft Carriers" , naval-history.net
SS Michael E was a 7,628 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British catapult aircraft merchant ship (CAM ship): a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine.
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.
CAM ships launched their fighters, in this case a Sea Hurricane, with a rocket-powered catapult. Sea Hurricane IA. The Sea Hurricane mk IA was a catapult only aircraft that was carried and launched from CAM ships. These ships only had the facilities to launch the aircraft so that if no land bases were available nearby the pilot was forced to ...
She was completed during World War II and served in that conflict. She was named for the British territory of Bermuda, and was the eighth vessel of that name. Bermuda was built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank and launched on 11 September 1941. In the same year, the lead ship of the class, Fiji, was sunk while participating in the ...
Lufthansa sought to engage in air mail service to the Americas using seaplanes launched off catapult ships, with Schwabenland being the second of those ships. The craft flew with a payload of 500 kg (1,100 lb) over 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi); [3] each flight carried 100,000 air mail letters.