I've just started reading a alternative history novel called "Far aft and faintly " which features Dutch battle cruiser carrier s . It got me thinking about hybrid warships which I see have been discussed a few times before .
Mostly when people start discussing them they cross a battleship with a carrier. I think a bit like the battle cruiser you have danger of someone trying to stick it in the battleline and it not really be fish nor fowl.
I was thinking what about crossing a monitor with a carrier . To give you a kind of proto commando carrier . For use in the island hopping campaigns in the Pacific perhaps . The Americans had enough carriers and battleships in WW 2 so it would have probably have to be a British design .
Monitors were meant to be expendable . The Carriertor would free up British battleships for fleet carrier escort and do the close inshore work that was high risk and once the helicopter arrived it might find its niche .
So one large calibre gun turret , ocean going hull , aviation facilities , air wing of ground attack aircraft , escort and CAP
I did also think of perhaps some kind of hybrid escort carrier to deter german convoy raid or as a raider Hunter maybe a surplus 12 inch turret and aviation facilities .
Mostly when people start discussing them they cross a battleship with a carrier. I think a bit like the battle cruiser you have danger of someone trying to stick it in the battleline and it not really be fish nor fowl.
I was thinking what about crossing a monitor with a carrier . To give you a kind of proto commando carrier . For use in the island hopping campaigns in the Pacific perhaps . The Americans had enough carriers and battleships in WW 2 so it would have probably have to be a British design .
Monitors were meant to be expendable . The Carriertor would free up British battleships for fleet carrier escort and do the close inshore work that was high risk and once the helicopter arrived it might find its niche .
So one large calibre gun turret , ocean going hull , aviation facilities , air wing of ground attack aircraft , escort and CAP
I did also think of perhaps some kind of hybrid escort carrier to deter german convoy raid or as a raider Hunter maybe a surplus 12 inch turret and aviation facilities .