French Aircraft Carrier Bearn modernized?

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Wasn't Bearn engaged in transporting aircraft from the US to France. What aircraft did she have on her final trip, WI maybe faulty radio doesn't hear about the 'end' and docks instead in Portsmouth - what next for the aircraft & ship??
 

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Wasn't Bearn engaged in transporting aircraft from the US to France. What aircraft did she have on her final trip, WI maybe faulty radio doesn't hear about the 'end' and docks instead in Portsmouth - what next for the aircraft & ship??


SBC Helldiver, Hawks and .... Buffaloes. :D

[FONT=&quot]Like the equally slow HMS Eagle and Argus would have support the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Malta[/FONT][FONT=&quot] convoys first and be used as an aircraft ferry later. The Hawks will probably go to[/FONT][FONT=&quot]India[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and [/FONT][FONT=&quot]South Africa[/FONT][FONT=&quot], the now 50+ SBC might see combat in a secondary theatre and I guess we all know where the Buffaloes would have gone. [/FONT]
 
Well, there's a reason to not only prevent her modernization but to scuttle her in 1938 as well.

:p

Unless, of course, she is hijacked by Finnish secret agents and sailed to Helsinki to meet the Finns' inexplicable addiction to Brewster products.
 
Bearn actually never embarked the ordered Brewster planes, as these were directly shipped to the UK instead, who also found no employ for this poor performance aircraft, therefore shipping it further to Asia, believing it could be more usefull against teh Japanese, of whom all Allies had a low oppinion. The Brewsters were transported in crates by Bearn, as were most aircraft, during her role as transport.

Bearn actually employed a few Vought Vindicator Scout-bomber as primary strike aircraft, during her last period of an active warship, besides the more common Loire-Nieuport LN.41 divebomber, Levasseur PL.101 recon, Levasseur PL.7 torpedobomber, Dewoitine D.376 fighter. The US plane was originally intended for the new breed of aircraft carriers, but these were never completed, so the aircraft eventually ended up in both the UK and France, where they got involved in the early stages of the Invasion of France in 1940.
 
I know that this thread is six years old but can the Bearn increase her speed from 21.5 knots to at least 24 or 25 knots if she had her engine rebuilt and her flydeck rebuild for new planes in 1941? The reason is I am doing a thread which consist of France fighting on (a naval style) and I am looking to see if in 1941 she gets a large refit in Norfolk Virginia USA that may take 8 months. Can anyone please give a thought about this? thanx.

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