Talk:Illustrious-class aircraft carrier

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I'm not sure how it could be said that features of the class found their way into postwar American carrier designs. Certainly, the supercarriers have the flight deck as part of the hull; however, that grew out of the design requirements for carriers on such a heavy tonnage - literally more than double the tonnage of any war-era carrier. It had nothing to do with Illustrious. Iceberg3k 22:36, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Design and construction

Where was the class built? Is it true that some British carriers were built in the US due to German raids?

UK yards - you are thinking of the escort carriers, not fleet carriers.GraemeLeggett

Deck Park

However, the hangar could be made larger and thus more aircraft could be carried, but the differences in aircraft capacity between these carriers and their USN counterparts is mostly due to the USN's operational doctrine, which allowed for a permanent deck park of aircraft to augment their hangar capacity.

You can do this when the ship is likely to be operating in the relatively mild (most of the time anyway) weather of the Pacific. It's not so practicable when operating in the North Atlantic in winter, when severe gales blow most of the time and the seas are often described as 'mountainous'. This is also why the US 'open' type of carrier construction is also much less usable. British carriers (and all RN vessels) were designed to cope-with, and to fight-in, these sort of seas, the sort that many navies would have difficulty staying afloat in. At least one foreign-built escort carrier broke up in such seas.Template:UnsingedIP

Sources? - BilCat (talk) 19:14, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake - it blew up, HMS Dasher, although 'faulty construction' was alleged.