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This is a tale I’ve not heard before. Can you provide more information? Especially about the timescale.Thinking about it, the most likely timeframe seems to me to be post Midway when the US was down to 4 carriers in the Pacific. In Dec1941 the first Essex were not expected until early 1944. But due to US industrial effort 7 were delivered by the end of 1943 along with 9 Independence class. So the need evaporates after 1942 or mid 1943 at the latest.If it had gone through then delivery of the Essex to Britain would have been in the 1944/45 timeframe given the actual completion dates of the Essex ordered in Aug 1942. Build times slowed on the ships completed after Aug 1945 and Oriskany’s build was suspended for several years before being restarted to a modified SCB-27 design.But there is nothing in this for Britain so no wonder it was quickly rejected. Without these ships Britain is left with Furious and Argus and escort carriers to provide air cover for its fleets in late 1942 and 1943 until the Implacables come along in 1944. And it is mid-1943 before escort carrier deliveries really begin to ramp up.But I am curious to learn more about the proposal.
This is a tale I’ve not heard before. Can you provide more information? Especially about the timescale.
Thinking about it, the most likely timeframe seems to me to be post Midway when the US was down to 4 carriers in the Pacific. In Dec1941 the first Essex were not expected until early 1944. But due to US industrial effort 7 were delivered by the end of 1943 along with 9 Independence class. So the need evaporates after 1942 or mid 1943 at the latest.
If it had gone through then delivery of the Essex to Britain would have been in the 1944/45 timeframe given the actual completion dates of the Essex ordered in Aug 1942. Build times slowed on the ships completed after Aug 1945 and Oriskany’s build was suspended for several years before being restarted to a modified SCB-27 design.
But there is nothing in this for Britain so no wonder it was quickly rejected. Without these ships Britain is left with Furious and Argus and escort carriers to provide air cover for its fleets in late 1942 and 1943 until the Implacables come along in 1944. And it is mid-1943 before escort carrier deliveries really begin to ramp up.
But I am curious to learn more about the proposal.
