Royal Navy – Escort Aircraft Carriers (1941-43)HMS Attacker, Battler, Chaser, Fencer, Hunter, Pursuer, Ravager, Searcher, Stalker, Striker, Tracker The 11 Attacker class CVE (escort carriers), alongside with the 23 Avengers, made the largest addition of escorts carriers in the Royal Navy, before the MACs and all locally converted vessels such as the Vindex class. They … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles 1932-1945: 53 total: Group I 1935-38: Triton, Thunderbolt, Tribune, Trident, Triumph, Taku, Tarpon, Thistle, Tigris, Triad, Truant, Group 3 boats, Talisman, Tetrarch, Torbay Group II 1939-41: Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent. Group III 1942-45: P311, Trespasser, Taurus, Tactician, Truculent, Templar, Tally-Ho, Tantalus, Tantivy. Telemachus, Talent, Terrapin, Thorough, Thule, Tudor, Tireless, Token, … Read more
Light Submersibles 1932-1945: S-class Group II: HMS Sealion, Shark, Snapper, Salmon, Seawolf, Spearfish, Sunfish, Sterlet Development The S-class submarines were originally designed when the need arose to modernize the submarine in the interwar, create smaller models fit for the North Sea and Mediterranean and replace the 1915 built H-class, still numerous in inventory and now … Read more
Royal Navy – Escort Aircraft Carriers (1942-43)HMS Avenger, Biter, Dasher, Charger (recom. USN as CVE-30) Avenger class escort aircraft carriers: It was made up of three ships, based on the US built standard C3 hulls, the same as for HMS Archer, and thus built in the US and prvovided under lend-lease, the first of a … Read more
United Kingdom, escort aircraft carrier (1939-1962) HMS Archer was a Long Island-class escort carrier based on a C3 cargo, MV Mormacland, converted and used under lend lease by the Royal Navy in WW2 as HMS Archer. Her was plagues by transmission issues and eventually this caused her to be withdrawn from front-line service. She became … Read more
3,261 LCT-1 to LCT-8 1940-1945 SPECIAL D-DAY 80th Yr Anniversay ! Of the main landing vessels that made the Armada of Operation Overlord on June, 6th, 1944, were many LCTs, especially the LCT-5/6 family of landing craft. Denominaiton at that stage was “Landing Craft, Tank” and they constituted a missing link between the infantry alone … Read more
United Kingdom (1942-44) HMS Bellona, Black Prince, Royalist, Spartan, Diadem The British AA cruisers, reloaded These ships were derived from the previous “Dido” but with revised AA artillery, superstructures and lower funnels to clear their firing range. They shared the same hull, facilities, and same turrets, albeit the “C” one (uppermost) was removed for a … Read more
United Kingdom – 19 Hybrid Merchant Escort Aircraft Carrier (1942-45): MV Empire MacAlpine, MacAndrew, MacCallum, MacDermott, MacKendrick, MacRae; MacCabe, MacColl, MacKay, MacMahon; MV Acavus, Adula, Alexia, Amastra, Ancylus, Gadila, Macoma, Miralda, Rapana. Although not the best-known aircraft carriers, MAC-ships (Merchant Aircraft Carriers, to not mix with the Merchant Armed Cruisers) illustrated the most extreme form … Read more
United Kingdom – Escort Aircraft Carriers: HMS Vindex, Nairana, Campania The Nairana-class escort carrier were three converted fast diesel cargo ships built in England, Ireland and Scotland, on a stnadard basic design launched in mid-1943 and requisitioned by the RN to be converted. They however could only accommodate a composite squadron of 15–20 aircraft over … Read more
United Kingdom – Escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Activity is one of the many one-off converted British escort carrier converted from the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was a merchant vessel requisitioned on slip and converted (pennant D94), recommissioned in late 1942 and only carrying ten aircraft, mostly Swordfish and Martlets of the … Read more
