AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
CONVERSION OF SMALL VESSELS RAPID PROGRESS IN U.S.A. LARGE SHIPS ALSO BEING BUILT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 9. A fleet of fifty small aircraft carriers is being rushed to completion by the conversion of commercial vessels. They will be used for convoying, scouting and battle duty. Of less than. 10,000 tons, they are capable of a speed of twenty knots and are fitted with a flight deck and all necessary equipment. They can be converted in 45 days. , The Navy has not discarded the policy of building large aircraft-carriers, seven of which arc in commission, with eleven more building.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1942, Page 4
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