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aircraft escort vessel - Aircraft Escort Vessel
aircraft escort vessel - A class of ship introduced in the Second Great War to ease the situation in air-sea warfare when the employment of the U-boat and long-range aircraft by the enemy was intensified and seriously jeopardised Allied shipping. A joint effort was launched by Britain and the United States to provide aircraft-carrying ships for convoys both by building these in British yards and by a large-scale conversion plan in America. The latter consisted in converting merchant ships into escort carriers. Great Britain produced the merchant aircraft carriers by the addition of night decks on grain ships and oil tankers.
The first converted merchantman to go into service was the German ship Hannover which had been intercepted by H.M.S. Dunedin in March, 1940. A flight deck 450 ft. long and 60 ft. wide was built on her. Six Martlet shipboard fighters were carried aboard her, these being lashed to the deck as no hangar was provided. This ship, re-named Audacity, was sunk by enemy torpedo in the Bay of Biscay, December, 1941.
A great fleet of escort carriers was built by the United States, more than eighty having gone into service before 1944, and 38 were supplied to Britain under Lend-Lease, the Anglo-American scheme which came into operation in 1941. The length of these ships was about 500 ft. and the tonnage approximately 10,000. Hangar accommodation was built into the vessels so that they could each take 12 to 20 aircraft. They also had the "island control" (i.e. control of navigation, gunnery, flying, and radar centralised in a superstructure on the starboard side of the flight deck) and anti-aircraft armament.
The term aircraft escort vessel quickly became obsolete. See Aircraft Carrier.
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