Merchant Aircraft Carrier Puns

Massive dry dock in Cochin Shipyard to be completed by July 2023. The 310m long dock will be capable of building upto 70,000 tonne aircraft carriers and 55,000 tonne Merchant vessels. mobile.twitter.com/TheLeg…

Why weren’t Aircraft Carriers used during the Battle of the Atlantic to cover Merchant fleets while they were in the Mid Atlantic Gap?

A damaged German submarine, part of a wolfpack that had been attacking Allied merchant shipping, comes to the surface under fire from aircraft launched by an escort carrier. The escort carriers led hunter-killer groups and helped turn the tide of the Battle of the Atlantic. [750x908] US Navy Photo.

Comparison of various IJN Aircraft Carriers from WWII - note how many of them were converted from battlecruisers, battleships, and merchant ships [6544 x 2584]

Model of a 'MAC Ship' - a Merchant Aircraft Carrier. These were functioning merchant ships adapted to carry a handful of aircraft for convoy defence [1280 x 560]

Captured German aircraft being shipped from Cherbourg, France to Newark, New Jersey aboard the American-built British escort carrier HMS Reaper as part of Operation Seahorse. Other aircraft and equipment were shipped aboard the Liberty-class merchant ship SS Richard J. Gatling. reddit.com/gallery/n56u61

Captured German aircraft being shipped from Cherbourg, France to Newark, New Jersey aboard the American-built British escort carrier HMS Reaper as part of Operation Seahorse. Other aircraft and equipment were shipped aboard the Liberty-class merchant ship SS Richard J. Gatling. reddit.com/gallery/n56u61

British escort aircraft carrier HMS Pretoria Castle at anchor. A Union-Castle ocean liner that in the Second World War was converted into a Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser, and then converted again into an escort carrier.[963 × 750]

(1000 x 667) MV Alexia was a British merchant aircraft carrier, converted in in December of 1943.During her MAC days, Alexia was given a full-length deck and a small island. She carried four Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers. At the end of the war, Alexia was reconverted to an oil tanker.

To shepherd vital convoy to Malta, British send largest warship escort so far of war- 26 destroyers, 2 battleships & 4 aircraft carriers. Despite this, 9 of the convoy's 14 merchant ships have been sunk & 400+ Allied sailors are dead.

TIL of Merchant Aircraft Carriers, converted merchantmen and oilers with an added flight deck for ASW. This particular ship, HMS Rapana, was an oil tanker that carried 4 Swordfish [800 x 605]

TIL that privately owned merchant aircraft carriers were built and used in WW2 to protect convoys of merchant cargo ships. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer…

[6206 x 4898]Shimane Maru a Japanese merchant aircraft carrier in about 1947-48, showing damage received by bombing at Shido, near Takamatsu imgur.com/wQGsaXo

[800 x 597] MV Empire MacAlpine in dry dock at Messrs Cammel Lairds at Birkenhead. She was the first converted merchant aircraft carrier (MAC) imgur.com/axwFJnC

Disreputable merchants being driven away with a fire hose - taken from an American aircraft carrier in Shanghai during WWII, 1940's. [1280 x 911]

[800 x 563] HNLMS Macoma during WWII. She was a MAC (Merchant Aircraft Carrier). She had no aircraft hangar, and continued to carry normal cargoes. After the war, she was returned to her normal role and scrapped in 1959. imgur.com/Aa5xekd

When aircraft carriers weren't available for protection, British WW2 merchant ships used to launch a single aircraft by means of a rocket-powered catapult. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM…

[October 11th, 1918] The Imperial German Navy's air command proposes that merchant ships be converted into Germany's first aircraft carriers with flight decks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp…

Former grain ship MV Empire MacAndrew after its conversion to a merchant aircraft carrier, at Greenock on July 13, 1943 [800×605]

MV Rapana was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The group is collectively known as the Rapana class. Bonus photo in comments. [1242 x 910]

HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) Started life as Ocean Liner converted to armed merchant cruiser and then an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. And back to an Ocean liner [963x750]

Strike photo of a USN Curtiss SB2C Helldiver from aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) over burning Japanese merchant ships off French Indochina, 12 Jan 1945. [1555 × 1730]

[Warship] MV Rapana was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The group is collectively known as the Rapana class. Bonus photo in comments.

Just spotted by satellite: full-scale mock-up of a US aircraft carrier in a desert in NW China.

A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier. reuters.com/article/idUST…

Former RMS/HMS Pretoria Castle and TSS Fairstar. The Pretoria Castle was built as a liner, converted to armed merchant cruiser and then an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. And back to an Ocean liner.

TIL that during WW2, the Allies lost 3,500 merchant ships (totaling 14.5M tons) in the Battle of the Atlantic. In terms of displacement, this is equivalent to nearly 150 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat…

Strike photo of a USN Curtiss SB2C Helldiver from aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) over burning Japanese merchant ships off French Indochina, 12 Jan 1945. [1555 × 1730]

Strike photo of a USN Curtiss SB2C Helldiver from aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) over burning Japanese merchant ships off French Indochina, 12 Jan 1945. [1555 × 1730]

The Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flies over California's Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec 10, 2008

I just made a timeline of the United States Navy aircraft carriers. [5233 x 3213]

Former aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk heading to the scrapper in dense fog today [OC] reddit.com/gallery/s53t4n

HMS Liverpool escorting Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov [1800x924]

[Warship] The merchant aircraft carrier HMS Rapana at Greenock, 30th July 1943. [OS] [800x605]

The manpower it takes for a World War Two carrier aircraft.

Korean Air first carrier to use drone swarms for aircraft inspection digitaltrends.com/news/ko…

I found the way to kill the alien aircraft Carrier without energy, but it's gonna take an eternity v.redd.it/6crqjqejydb81

Hawker Hurricane being launched by rockets from the deck of a CAM ("catapult aircraft merchant") ship. They were used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became availa... /u/fernguts

"Operation Pedestal" is inflicting a dreadful cost on Allied ships: one aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, has been sunk, 2 more carriers badly damaged, & other escorts & merchant ships sunk with 100s of deaths.