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i think the RN had the right idea....ditch the seaplanes and use the hanger as a movie theater

Twas a cold and foggy night

from the bismark site...3 A2 and one A3. from youtube a short clip of the engine mounts failing on landing in a moderate chop....the plane burnt and the crew went swimming so landing in a moderate gale is probably not happening.

The picture gets muddy as later versions were ship based and had the heavy armament but considering she had four aboard and no attempt was made to launch it was either too rough or they were early versions with no fwd armament.

My take on the wiki article is the shipboard version had only a single MG in the rear and it was the shore based version that had the fwd firing canons and single MG.

In OTL there was no attempt to launch when confronted by 2 air strikes.......not that the catapult was functional by then.Looks like a compressed air catapult so one would think it could have been fixed....if they bothered to check.

actually the more i think about it the logic of putting a one shot surplus fighter aboard a freighter to ward of the occasional single search plane makes sense but to put 2 or 4 or so one shot front line fighters to defend against a strike from an aircraft carrier capable of swamping your...

Oh wait they had fulmars aboard ark royal so ...............

The stern tends to be a rather soggy place in the north atlantic and i suspect if it was part of the original design then room would have been made midships for the planes.But knowing the Bismark carried fighters it would seem reasonable to send a fighter escort,even a few skuas would keep them...

i was thinking more of a battleship but even on cruisers it seems to be an afterthought......as in after the plane is broken.

If they discovered it was broken and if they had spare parts.......they were basically a gun barrell with a shell cartridge providing a bang so bandaids wouldn t cut it.And naturally of course in OTL it wasn t found to be broken until wanting to fly off the ships log/war diary thingy so either...

Was just wondering if anyone knows if any capital ship ever launched a spotter plane to well spot for them in a ship to ship action?They all seem to have been damaged by gunfire begging the question of why have them?

The Prinz eugen ran away before Ark Royal's swordfish strike..........soooooo......no change.

Bismark did have a catapult.....but Prince of Wales put it out of action.....soooooo.........no changes from OTL

Would that be the strike from the Victorious?And if not why would they not have launched?And where do they land?

but the skua would be the spare fighter and the 109 would have hurricanes/f4f4s and or seafires to worry about.

Yes to the slow stringbag BUT the stringbag rarely encountered other aircraft much less fighters whereas the fiesler would have to assume it would.Even the much maligned skua would handle the fiesler.

They kinda did build a one size fits all engine but it was a 4 cyl triple expansion reciprocating steam engine of 2750 indicated horsepower. But (again) it made more sense not to take functioning ships of a multitude of designs out of service to refit them,instead building corvettes,frigates and...

DNC proposed a permanent deck park for the prewar Ark Royal so no it isn't hindsight and Audacious shrunk to 23000 tons is a single hanger Illustrious class.

that dreaded phrase that haunts the RN...........run awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy.