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Supercarrier — Supercarrier is an unofficial descriptive term for the largest type of aircraft carrier, typically those displacing over 70, short tons. Supercarriers are the largest warships ever built, larger than the largest battleships laid down by any country, outside the US, there are more light carriers closer to 30, tons, such as Italys Cavour. A few countries operate medium-sized fleet carriers of around 40, tons, such as the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the Indian Navy aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.

The first ship to be described by The New York Times as a supercarrier was HMS Ark Royal in , with a length of feet, in the superlative was transferred to the 45, ton Midway-class carriers as a step-up from the 27, ton Essex class. The Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, launched in , was the first aircraft carrier with a displacement of over 65, metric tons.

The post-war standard for supercarriers was set by the proposed USS United States, Forrestal displaced 60, tons standard and 78, tons in deep load and is considered the first operational supercarrier in the present-day sense, as used by the US press. The similar-sized United States would have been in earlier, had it been completed.

These ships are referred to as supercarriers by British legislators and the news media, the two Queen Elizabeth-class carriers will provide the Royal Navy with capabilities much closer to United States Navy carriers than the Invincible-class vessels retired in He is very keen for us to get these because he sees us slotting in with his carrier groups and he really wants us to have these, but he wants us to have the same sort of clout as one of their carriers. Future plans for supercarriers in the United States involve the construction of the U.

Navys next generation of carriers, the Gerald R. Ford class, however, supercarrier advocates consider them to be more cost-effective than a larger number of smaller carriers. If realized, it could be moved throughout the worlds oceans. The concept was studied in the s by the U. Escort carrier — They were typically half the length and a third the displacement of larger fleet carriers.

While they were slower, carried fewer planes and were well armed and armored, escort carriers were cheaper and could be built quickly. Escort carriers could be completed in greater numbers as a stop-gap when fleet carriers were scarce, however, the lack of protection made escort carriers particularly vulnerable and several were sunk with great loss of life. The light carrier was a concept to escort carriers in most respects. Most often built on a ship hull, escort carriers were too slow to keep up with the main forces consisting of fleet carriers, battleships.

Instead, they were used to escort convoys, defending them from threats such as submarines and planes. In the invasions of mainland Europe and Pacific islands, escort carriers provided air support to forces during amphibious operations. Escort carriers also served as aircraft transports for fleet carriers. In the Battle of the Atlantic, escort carriers were used to protect convoys against U-boats, initially escort carriers accompanied the merchant ships and helped to fend off attacks from aircraft and submarines. As numbers increased later in the war, escort carriers formed part of hunter-killer groups that sought out submarines instead of being attached to a particular convoy.

They lacked the speed and weapons to enemy fleets, relying on the protection of a Fast Carrier Task Force. However, at the Battle off Samar, one U. The Japanese met a furious defense of carrier aircraft, screening destroyers, of the aircraft carriers built in the U. Though no examples survive to this day, the Casablanca class was the most numerous class of aircraft carrier, second was the Bogue class, with 45 launched.

In the early s, the Washington Naval Treaty imposed limits on the maximum size, later treaties largely kept these provisions. As a result, construction between the World Wars had been insufficient to meet needs for aircraft carriers as World War II expanded from Europe. She was launched on 14 August sponsored by Mrs. She remained on the Pacific coast until she departed for Philadelphia on 10 October, en route, the collier steamed through the Panama Canal on Columbus Day, the first vessel to transit it from west to east. Prior to Americas entry into World War I, she cruised the Atlantic, the first voyage transported a naval aviation detachment of 7 officers and men to England.

It was the first US aviation detachment to arrive in Europe and was commanded by Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting, who became Langleys first executive officer five years later. Jupiter was back in Norfolk on 23 January whence she sailed for Brest, upon reaching Norfolk on 17 August, the ship was transferred to the West Coast. Her conversion to a carrier was authorized on 11 July , and she sailed to Hampton Roads, Virginia on 12 December.

Jupiter was converted into the first US aircraft carrier at the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, for the purpose of conducting experiments in the new idea of seaborne aviation. On 11 April , she was renamed Langley in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American astronomer, physicist, aeronautics pioneer and aircraft engineer and she recommissioned on 20 March with Commander Kenneth Whiting in command.

As the first American aircraft carrier, Langley was the scene of several events in US naval aviation. On 17 October , Lt. Griffin piloted the first plane—a Vought VE-7—launched from her decks, the era of the aircraft carrier was born introducing into the navy what was to become the vanguard of its forces in the future. With Langley underway nine days later, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Courcelles Chevalier made the first landing in an Aeromarine 39B, on 18 November, Commander Whiting was the first aviator to be catapulted from a carriers deck.

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Pigeons had been carried aboard seaplanes for message transport since World War I, the pigeons were trained at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard while Langley was undergoing conversion. By 15 January , Langley had begun flight operations and tests in the Caribbean Sea for carrier landings, in June, she steamed to Washington, D. She was the ship of her class of four colliers. She completed the final of four runs on 4 August of that year. Sailing again from Norfolk on 25 September , Proteus supplied coal, oil, men and stores for ships of the Atlantic Fleet at Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Proteus returned to Norfolk on 6 August , and during the part of the next three years cruised from Norfolk to replenish the Fleet in the Caribbean. S, crossing the Panama Canal four times, she delivered fuel and stores to Pearl Harbor in , and to Callao, Peru in Her last supply run to the Caribbean ended at Hampton Roads on 12 April , Proteus spent the remainder of her career in operations between Norfolk and Melville, Rhode Island.

She decommissioned at Norfolk on 25 March and remained inactive until her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 December She was sold to Saguenay Terminals Ltd. There are no German U-boat claims for this vessel, one outlandish theory is that the vessels disappearance can be attributed to the Bermuda Triangle. A more likely explanation is a flaw in the ships.

A memorial listing of her crew can be found at the CWGC Halifax Memorial, a Canadian website suggests Proteuss possible fate as having foundered in heavy seas on November 25, somewhere in the Caribbean Sea with the loss of all of her 58 crewmembers. Her third sister-ship, Jupiter, was converted into the very first U. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, the entry can be found here.

Collier ship — A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed to carry coal, especially for naval use by coal-fired warships. Coaling at sea was critical to navies and speed of transfer was an important metric of naval efficiency. In , forty tons an hour was considered fast and it would take twelve hours to restock half the bunkers of a typical ship. Sir Charles Palmer pioneered the construction of iron-hulled steam colliers at his Jarrow shipyard, the iron colliers had ballast tanks which meant water could simply be pumped in, greatly reducing the turnaround time as the sand no longer needed to be loaded and unloaded.

Coal was also exported to Europe, and wooden colliers returned with such as roofing tiles in their holds. The first Palmer-built iron hulled steam collier was SS John Bowes of , there had been an earlier iron hull screw propelled collier, the short-lived SS Bedlington of built in South Shields. A notable incident involving a collier occurred not long after the opening of the Victoria Tunnel in Newcastle, the hemp rope which controlled the speed of wagons descending the tunnel to the river from Spital Tongues Colliery snapped, and the wagons landed in the Tyne.

The wagons were recovered at low tide, the rope was repaired, six months later, the rope snapped again, and the wagons landed in the hold of a waiting collier and sank it. After this, it was decided a wire rope would be a better option and this is probably the only recorded incident of a train having sunk a ship.

Some had spouts used for unscreened or small coal, others known as drops had steep inclines at the end, down which a wagon would be lowered directly into the hold, some had both drops and spouts. The drops and spouts could be raised and lowered with the tide, later, elevators began to be introduced, such as those at Bates Staithes in Blyth, Northumberland and Harton Low Staithes in South Shields.

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The largely intact Dunston Staithes on the Tyne are an example of this type. In Scotland, a system was common where wagons would be placed on a cradle and lifted into the hold of the ship, the men who worked at the staithes were known as teemers and trimmers. The trimmers worked in the hold, spreading and levelling the coal with shovels and this was a dangerous job, as the holds could fill with firedamp given off by the coal, resulting in an explosion.

More modern systems are designed to be able to distribute the coal without the need for men working in the holds of the ships. The wharf at Battersea Power Station is still extant, and the used for unloading the coal can be seen on the riverfront. These are fitted with buckets and in operation loaded a hopper. Lexington-class aircraft carrier — The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the s.

The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I, the Treaty, however, allowed two of the unfinished ships to be converted to carriers. They were the first operational aircraft carriers in the USN and were used to carrier aviation tactics.

They proved extremely successful as carriers and experience with the Lexington class convinced the Navy of the value of large carriers and they were the largest aircraft carriers in the USN until the Midway-class aircraft carriers were completed beginning in The ships served in World War II, seeing action in many battles and she supported Allied operations in the Indian Ocean and South West Pacific Areas until she became a training ship at the end of Saratoga returned to combat to protect American forces during the Battle of Iwo Jima in early , the continued growth in the size and weight of carrier aircraft made her obsolete by the end of the war.

In mid, the ship was sunk during nuclear tests in Operation Crossroads. The Lexington-class was originally designed as battlecruisers, with guns, high speed. The Navy laid down six ships of the class in —20, when the battlecruisers were cancelled under the Washington Naval Treaty of , two of the unfinished ships were designated for completion as carriers. Lexington and Saratoga were selected since they were the most advanced of the six ships in construction, conversion became a series of compromises and mixed blessings which would not have arisen had they been specifically designed carriers from the outset.

On the plus side, the ships would have better protection, larger magazines for aircraft bombs and, with the after elevator 28 feet higher than otherwise. The bottom line, with the signing of the treaty, was that any capital ships under construction by the five signatories had to be canceled and scrapped, for battlecruisers, this encompassed the United States Lexington class, Japans Amagi class, and Great Britains G3 battlecruisers. The Navy opted for the latter course, the next challenge the Navys Bureau of Construction and Repair faced was the tonnage cap set by the treaty. Carriers were to be no more than 27, tons, an exception, spearheaded by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

This would almost not be enough for a conversion without removing half the power plant, creative interpreting of a clause in the treaty allowed a potential way out of this situation. Ranger was a small ship, closer in size and displacement to the first US carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the design, but was added after completion. Deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleets carrier task forces against Japan, Ranger saw combat in that theatre and provided air support for Operation Torch.

In October , she fought in Operation Leader, air attacks on German shipping off Norway, the ship was sold for scrap in The Washington Naval Treaty limited both the size of ships that could be built and the total tonnage of aircraft carriers that could be built. What became Ranger was to be the first purpose-built aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the carrier cost Ranger had a narrow hull due to its size and one inch of armor on the hangar deck, due to space limits, the carrier was equipped with geared turbines.

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The design was modified to include an island, increasing the displacement to 14, tons. The smoke from the six boilers was vented up six small stacks. The stacks were hinged and were rotated to a parallel with the hangar deck during flight operations. Ranger also incorporated a gallery deck between the deck and hangar deck. The hangar deck was semi-open and had large roll-up metal curtain doors which could be closed in bad weather, one was located on the centerline and two offset to the starboard centerline.

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It was originally planned to install two catapults on the deck to allow the launching of observation aircraft but this plan was dropped. The carrier was able to carry 76 aircraft at the time, Ranger was armed with six 40 mm quadruple mounts and forty-six 20 mm mounts. The carrier was one of the first U.

Navy ships mounted with light weapons to defend against dive-bombing attacks. Navy opened bids for the construction of the carrier on 3 September Yorktown-class aircraft carrier — The Yorktown class was a class of three aircraft carriers built by for the United States Navy and completed shortly before World War II.

They immediately followed Ranger, the first U. These ships bore the brunt of early action in the Pacific War, Enterprise, the sole survivor of the class, was the most decorated ship of the U. Navy in the Second World War. After efforts to save her as a ship failed, she was scrapped in A forerunner to modern development, the Yorktown class was a result of standardized war gaming exercises using Langley.

The results were that islands on the carriers were highlighted and speed itself was considered very important, the 27, ton plan for the Yorktown class was a fall back plan from a 23, ton carrier that could not achieve that desired speed. The realization that larger carriers would be more survivable was a happy coincidence, nevertheless, the war games and the Naval War College highlighted the greater flexibility presented by large air groups and fast speed. These became along with protection, the guiding principles in the Yorktown class designs.

In particular, the 23, ton design had to sacrifice protection features, all studies showed that the 27, ton designs were to be preferred however all treaty limitations made this impossible. Later it would be noted that the carriers provided close to an all weather ability to launch aircraft. The British Royal Navy had constructed several carriers during this time, admiral Marc Mitscher had in particular pushed for such a carrier.

The American Naval Attache J. Hunsacker reported that HMS Furious had problems deposing of the fumes without proper smoke stacks, the aviation community continued to demand flush decked carriers. Given additional problems with controlling air groups all American carriers would be constructed with islands, in any case BuAer retracted all demands for flush decked carriers. The design show an island and the design for USS Ranger the contractor stated that gun control was impossible without a raised island, both USS Ranger and USS Wasp further showed the limitations of sub, ton designs.

USS Ranger proved to be unable to withstand rougher weather in the Pacific while lack of any protective features soon relegated her to a training ship. USS Wasps lack of torpedo protection contributed to her loss in the Pacific theater, as the result of this experience, the U. Navy built Yorktown and Enterprise, commissioned in and respectively.

These were fast and versatile carriers able to carry and operate over 80 warplanes which was almost as many as the much larger Lexington class. She was the ship named USS Wasp, and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.

As a reduced-size version of the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier hull, Wasp was more vulnerable than other United States aircraft carriers available at the opening of hostilities, Wasp was initially employed in the Atlantic campaign, where Axis naval forces were perceived as less capable of inflicting decisive damage. After the construction of the carriers Yorktown and Enterprise, the U.

In order to weight and space, Wasp was constructed with low-power machinery. Additionally, Wasp was launched with almost no armor, modest speed and, more significantly, absence of side protection of the boilers and internal aviation fuel stores doomed her to a blazing demise. These were inherent design flaws that were recognized when constructed but could not be remedied within the allowed tonnage and these flaws, combined with a relative lack of damage control experience in the early days of the war, were to prove fatal. Wasp was the first carrier fitted with a deck edge elevator, the elevator consisted of a platform for the front wheels and an outrigger for the tail wheel.

The two arms on the sides moved the platform in a half-circle up and down between the deck and the hangar deck. Wasp remained at Boston through May, fitting out, before she got underway on 5 June for calibration tests on her radio direction finder gear. After further fitting out while anchored in Boston harbor, the new aircraft carrier steamed independently to Hampton Roads, Virginia, four days later, she sailed for the Caribbean in company with the destroyer Morris. En route, she conducted the first of many carrier qualification tests, among the earliest of the qualifiers was Lieutenant, junior grade David McCampbell, who later became the Navys top-scoring ace in World War II.

A fatal incident marred the carriers shakedown, on 9 July, one of her Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator dive bombers crashed 2 nautical miles from the ship. Wasp bent on speed to close, as did the plane-guarding destroyer Morris. The latters boats recovered items from the baggage compartment. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than million people from over 30 countries.

Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late to early , in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. The Axis advance halted in when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in , the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies.

During and the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts.

Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September , beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later.

The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July , or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September Others follow the British historian A. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August , rather than the formal surrender of Japan.

Roosevelt — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from until his death in A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a figure in world events during the midth century.

He directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression and he is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt was born in to an old, prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County and he attended the elite educational institutions of Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School. In , Roosevelt was presidential candidate James M.

Coxs running mate and he was in office from to and served as a reform governor, promoting the enactment of programs to combat the depression besetting the United States at the time. In the presidential election, Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency, Roosevelt took office while in the United States was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history.

Energized by his victory over polio, FDR relied on his persistent optimism and activism to renew the national spirit. He created numerous programs to support the unemployed and farmers, and to labor union growth while more closely regulating business. His support for the repeal of Prohibition in added to his popularity, the economy improved rapidly from —37, but then relapsed into a deep recession in — The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in prevented his packing the Supreme Court, when the war began and unemployment ended, conservatives in Congress repealed the two major relief programs, the WPA and CCC.

However, they kept most of the regulations on business, along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wagner Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Social Security. He supervised the mobilization of the U. His work also influenced the creation of the United Nations. Roosevelts physical health declined during the war years, and he died 11 weeks into his fourth term.

One of the oldest Dutch families in New York State, the Roosevelts distinguished themselves in other than politics. One ancestor, Isaac Roosevelt, had served with the New York militia during the American Revolution, Roosevelt attended events of the New York society Sons of the American Revolution, and joined the organization while he was president. Essex-class aircraft carrier — The Essex class was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy that constituted the 20th centurys most numerous class of capital ships.

The class consisted of 24 vessels, which came in both short-hull and long-hull versions, thirty-two ships were originally ordered, however as World War II wound down, six were canceled before construction, and two were canceled after construction had begun. No Essex-class ships were lost to enemy action, despite several vessels sustaining very heavy damage, at the time of the repudiations, both Italy and Japan had colonial ambitions, intending on or already conducting military conquests.

A longer, wider deck and a deck-edge elevator facilitated more efficient aviation operations. Machinery arrangement and armor protection was improved from previous designs. These features, plus the provision of more guns, gave the ships much enhanced survivability. Some ships in the class would serve until well after the end of the Vietnam War, debates raged, and continue to this day, regarding the effect of strength deck location.

British designers comments tended to disparage the use of deck armor. After the abrogation of disarmament treaties by Japan in , the U. With the Naval Expansion Act of Congress passed on 17 May and this permitted the building of Hornet, which was the third Yorktown-class CV, and Essex, which was the lead ship of a new class.

These were to become known as Essex-class carriers, under the terms of the Two-Ocean Navy Act, ten more of these carriers were programmed. After the US declaration of war, Congress appropriated funds for nineteen more Essexes, ten were ordered in August and three more in June Only two of these were completed in time to see active World War II service, six ships ordered in were canceled before construction was begun. The first eight hulls were originally assigned names from historic Navy ships, Lexington was originally laid down as Cabot, but was renamed during construction after the original USS Lexington was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May Yorktown, originally to be named Bon Homme Richard, was renamed after the original USS Yorktown was lost at the Battle of Midway on 7 June , Lexington and Yorktown share the unique distinction of being named after both historic ships and historic battles.

The erstwhile Valley Forge was renamed Princeton after USS Princeton was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October , at the conclusion of the war, the six ships ordered but never laid down were canceled. Of the nine still unfinished six were completed, two were scrapped, and Oriskany was taken in hand for modification to an improved design, in drawing up the preliminary design for Essex, particular attention was directed at the size of both the flight and hangar decks.

Independence-class aircraft carrier — The Independence-class aircraft carriers were a class of light carriers built for the United States Navy that served during World War II. Adapted from the design for Cleveland-class light cruisers, this class of ship resulted from the interest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in naval air power.

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With war looming, the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy noted no new aircraft carriers were expected to be completed before He proposed to some of the many cruisers then under construction to carriers. Undeterred, President Roosevelt ordered another study, on 25 October , the Navys Bureau of Ships reported that aircraft carriers converted from cruiser hulls would be of lesser capability, but available much sooner. After the December attack on Pearl Harbor, the need for more carriers became urgent, the Navy accelerated construction of the 34, ton Essex-class aircraft carriers, but these large ships could not be finished quickly.

So in January , the Navy also ordered that a Cleveland-class light cruiser then under construction be completed instead as an aircraft carrier. It became the USS Belleau Wood, the first ship of the Independence-class, plans developed for this conversion showed much more promise than expected. Two more light cruisers were reordered as carriers in February, three more in March, and a three in June The Independence-class design had a short and narrow flight deck and hangar. The hangar, flight deck, and island represented a significant increase in the topside weight.

To compensate for this, blisters were added to the original cruiser hull, Ships of this class carried a small air group - only about 30 aircraft. This was originally set to consist of nine fighters, nine bombers, and nine torpedo bombers. These were limited-capability ships, whose principal virtue was near-term availability and their limited size made for seakeeping difficulties in the many typhoons of the Pacific, and their small flight decks led to a relatively high aircraft accident rate.

However, being based on a cruiser, they were fast ships. The cruiser hull and engineering allowed them the necessary to operate with the main fleet carrier task groups.

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Their names followed the US Navys policy of naming aircraft carriers after historic navy ships or historic battles, eight of these carriers participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June , which effectively ended Japans carrier air power. The light carriers provided 40 percent of the Fast Carrier Task Forces fighters and 36 percent of the torpedo bombers. Light aircraft carrier — A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier that is smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country, light carriers typically have a complement of aircraft only one-half to two-thirds the size of a fleet carrier.

The Independence-class ships, however, had the virtue of being available at a time when available carrier decks had been reduced to Enterprise and Saratoga in the Pacific, in addition, unlike escort carriers, they had enough speed to take part in fleet actions with the larger carriers. Late in the war, a follow on design to the Independence-class, two vessels in this class—Saipan and Wright—were completed after the wars end. After very brief lives as carriers, the Saipans were converted to command, the British design light fleet carrier was a scaled-down version of their Illustrious-class fleet carrier.

The design could be built in a yard with little or no experience of warship construction, although built to merchant standards, the design incorporated better watertight subdivision. Expected to have a lifetime of three years, the last of the design was taken out of service in The first eight were built as the Colossus but revisions upgrading the design to larger and heavier aircraft led to the remainder being the Majestic class. In the post-war period, the Royal Navy operated a force of ten Colossus class carriers including the two maintenance carriers, by HMS Hermes was being considered as equivalent to a light aircraft carrier, due to her small size and lack of armour.

Currently five light carriers are in service. The companys experience led it to two basic design features directly related to the intended use in overnight, luxury passenger service for passengers wanting a good nights sleep. The ship was built by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, soon to be acquired and renamed American Ship Building Company, of Wyandotte, Seeandbee, the largest side-wheel steamer in the world at the time, was launched 9 November According to the Interstate Commerce Commission the ships tonnage was 6, GRT and 1, DWT, above that 3 ft ballast compartment the ship was divided by eleven watertight bulkheads extending from keel to main deck with hydraulic doors operated from the engine room.

In total there were seven decks, tank top, orlop, main, promenade, gallery, upper, steel was used to the promenade deck with fire protection for beams above that level and fireproof doors provided compartmentalization and steel fire curtains in cargo spaces. For fire alarm purposes the vessel was divided into fifty sections with fire hydrants spaced so that permanently attached hoses reached every point in the vessel and an extensive sprinkler system.

Propulsion was by an inclined, three-cylinder steam engine below the deck with only the main bearing tops, upper parts of the valves. The engine was unique in using a Walschaert gear, normally used on locomotives, the speed guarantee of 22 miles per hour was met by the engines indicated horsepower of 12, ihp at 31 revolutions per minute. The single ended boilers were 14 ft inside diameter by 10 ft 6 in length, the two 32 ft 9 in diameter paddle wheels each had eleven steel buckets 14 ft 10 in long by 5 ft wide. Due to the channels at both Cleveland and Buffalo additional maneuvering capability was required and a bow rudder and steam steering engine were provided.

Washed air ventilation units provided air for all interior spaces with exhaust fans for removal of foul air. Over telephones were aboard, with one in every stateroom, officers quarters and in booths in areas as part of a public system. Aft, extending to the stern, was the dining room paneled in mahogany and white enamel with a banquet room on the starboard side. Alcoves with bay windows provided some relatively private dining areas in the dining room.

Stairs led to a buffet of old English tavern decor below the dining room, on the gallery deck was the ladies drawing room in Italian Renaissance style with built in seats and above, on the next deck, was an Atrium with sleeping rooms adjoining. Amidships on the deck was the lounge with seating and provision for light refreshments.

Seeandbee carried members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce to Buffalo on the voyage with regular operations beginning from the East 9th Street pier in Lacking a hangar deck, elevators or armaments, she was not a true warship, the main purpose of her creation was for the advanced training of naval aviators in aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings.

On her first day of service fifty-nine pilots became qualified within nine hours of operations, with each making eight takeoffs, pilot training was conducted seven days a week in all types of weather conditions. One aviator that trained upon the Sable was future president George H. She was sold for scrapping on 7 July to the H. Formerly named Greater Buffalo, Sable was originally built in by the American Ship Building Company of Lorain and her hull number was and the official number assigned to her was A twenty-two foot long transportation themed mural, painted by New York City artists Francklyn Paris, on the promenade deck at the stern of the ship was a smoking room with a line of windows that arced from one side of the ship to the other.

Each room had a telephone with a switch board located in the ships lobby as well as motion picture equipment to show movies for passenger entertainment. When completed, Greater Buffalo was Following a period of growth during World War I the Detroit. The Greater Buffalo along with her sister ship Greater Detroit were among the largest side wheel paddle ships on the Great Lakes when she entered service in OConnor who was president of the board at the time.

Greater Buffalo was used as an overnight service boat transporting up to 1, passengers from Buffalo to Detroit for the Detroit. Guests were entertained by an orchestra for dancing in the dining room following dinner service as well as radio programming provided in the main salon. During the Great Depression the Greater Buffalo along with her ship were taken out of service from thru This, along with union disputes and worker strikes, caused continuing losses for her owners, in the Greater Buffalo was docked at Cleveland and used as a floating hotel for attendees of the Republican Convention.

Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between , the year the Truman Doctrine was announced, and , the year the Soviet Union collapsed. The term cold is used there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, supported by the two sides.

In opposition stood the West, dominantly democratic and capitalist with a free press, a small neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement, it sought good relations with both sides. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat, but they were armed in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in , the Berlin Blockade was the first major crisis of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of was stopped by the Soviets, the expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis, the Berlin Crisis of , and the Cuban Missile Crisis of The early s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight , the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation.

In the mids, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the reforms of perestroika and glasnost. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. The result in was a wave of revolutions that peacefully overthrew all of the communist regimes of Central, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August The United States remained as the only superpower.

The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy and it is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media featuring themes of espionage and the threat of nuclear warfare. Midway-class aircraft carrier — The Midway-class aircraft carrier was one of the longest-serving aircraft carrier designs in history.

First commissioned in late , the ship of the class, USS Midway, was not decommissioned until The CVB class vessels were conceived in as a design study to determine the effect of including an armored flight deck on a carrier the size of the Essex class. Aircraft Carriers - CVN". Retrieved 22 June Past Present And Future". Retrieved 1 December Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying. United States Naval Academy. The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July Langley , lead ship. Lexington , lead ship. Sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Ranger , lead ship.

Scrapped in in Chester, Pennsylvania. Yorktown , lead ship. Sunk in the Battle of Midway. Wasp , lead ship. Sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign. Sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Essex , lead ship. Independence light carrier , lead ship. Sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Midway , lead ship. Saipan , lead ship.

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