Torpedo Boat Carriers

This is very off the cuff, but could an early 1910s or alternately WWII-era navy create a torpedo boat carrier designed to be the ultimate surface commerce raider.

Say design the ship to carry 6-8 torpedo boats and more than enough supplies to keep them going in Oceanic combat?

Now clearly a Japanese version with Long Lances could be nasty but only before Allied air supremacy.
 
Someone did. The French had such a ship pre WW1 with the Torpedo Boat Carrier Foudre. The requirement was eventually filled by aircraft carriers with torpedo bombers. Torpedoes like the 24” ‘Long Lance’ we’re too big for PT boats but Japan could build quality smaller torpedoes as well.
WW2 German raiders sometimes carried small torpedo boats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_seaplane_carrier_Foudre


HMS Vulcan (1889) could also carry torpedo boats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vulcan_(1889)
 
Now clearly a Japanese version with Long Lances could be nasty but only before Allied air supremacy.
The closest in concept for this was the modification of IJN Seaplane Carriers to carry and launch mini submarines via stern doors:
Japanese_seaplane_tender_Nisshin_1942.jpg

Nisshin here could carry 12 and either Chiyoda or Chitose could carry 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_carrier_Nisshin

They were intended to be used during the Decisive Battle not for anti commerce purposes.
 
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