Aircraft carriers

Aircraft carriers in the period between World Wars

   During the First World War and for several years after the aircraft carriers were rebuilt in the various warships, for example, the battle cruiser HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious, HMS Furious and linkor "Almirante Kohreyn" (aircraft carrier "Eagle") in the British Navy, Battleship "Bearn" in the French Navy (aircraft carrier "Bearn"), liner cruiser "Lexington" and "Saratoga" in the Navy battle cruiser "Akagi" and linkor "Kaga" in Japan. One of the reasons for such changes battleships to aircraft carriers, was the Washington Treaty, sharply limited TTH battleships or their number, leaving no choice of either redo "extra" battleship or aircraft carrier to give it for scrap. What's curious, Americans and Japanese, with the restructuring of heavy ship (battleship or battle cruiser) in the carrier tried to retain heavy weapons are installing it in the side casemates. Thus, for example, an American heavy aircraft carrier Legsington "carried eight 203-mm guns, and Japanese" Akagi "six 203-mm artillery shells, corresponding to size heavy cruiser.

   In the interwar years, the attempt of construction of aircraft carriers on the basis of submarines (submarine aircraft carriers), as well as at the airships and strategic bombers (air aircraft carriers).

   With regard to the USSR, the years of civil war used ersatz-carrier "Town", a barge on which plunged several hydroplanes.