NEW CARRIERS
Many In Service
(6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May. 27. Dozens of small but useful aircraftcarriers are now in combat areas and scores more are either heading for action or under construction. They have been converted from merchantmen or built from the keel up as auxiliaries.
Colonel Frank Knox (Secretary for the Navy) made this announcement at a press conference. He added: “These carriers hold aircraft adequate to patrol vast reaches of the ocean in convoy duty, and provide a triple menace to undersea, surface and air raiders.”
Vice-Admiral Horne, who attended the conference, said the new carriers had been very successful in all seven seas. He explained that low speed has limitations, but the auxiliary carriers can and have served to transport military aeroplanes. They can carry fuelled planes to within flying range of combat areas and catapult them into the air for immediate service. A substantial number of the planes in North Africa were transported on these vessels.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22542, 29 March 1943, Page 3
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