Photo #: S-511-43
"Aircraft Carrier Converted from 6" Cruiser (Class
CL55)"
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during
the development of the Independence class small aircraft
carrier design.
This scheme, dated 25 August 1941, provides a flight deck similar
in size to that ultimately adopted, with a larger hangar, smaller
aircraft elevators, a conventional island and an anti-aircraft
battery of four 40mm quadruple mounts.
Scale of the original drawings is 1/32" = 1'.
The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book"
held by the Naval Historical Center.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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