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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.
The ship's commander, Kapitän zur See (KzS–Captain at Sea) Karl Topp, [22] pronounced the ship ready for combat operations on 10 January 1942. [20] The following day, Tirpitz left for Wilhelmshaven, a move designed to conceal her actual destination. [21] The ship left Wilhelmshaven at 23:00 on 14 January and made for Trondheim. [21]
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.
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.
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 ...
The 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.
fighter catapult ship: sunk 1941 Patroller: Ruler: escort carrier: 7,800 22 October 1943 paid off 7 February 1947, scrapped February 1974 Pegasus: Pegasus: seaplane carrier/fighter catapult ship: 7,080 10 December 1914 known as HMS Ark Royal until 1934. Used as seaplane training ship and aircraft transport until converted in 1940. Paid off June ...