Originally Posted by
Asturias56
And they cost washers TBH
Based on merchant ship hulls with merchant ship machinery, and often Merchant Navy personnel as part of the crew as they had been signed over the the Admiralty. Cheaper and quicker to build than a full size carrier - definitely. Cheaper than a contemporary destroyer - probably not.
Cheaper than not providing convoys with around the clock aircraft patrols against U boats and fighter protection - yes.
From:
Wargaming the Atlantic War: Captain Gilbert Roberts and the Wrens of the Western Approaches Tactical Unit
The other day I stumbled upon a Google site entitled 'Fleet Air Arm Sprog'. It was a short memoir by somebody who entered the Royal Navy as a Radio Mechanic in 1942 (I think) and served with a FAA squadron aboard an escort carrier in the Atlantic in late 1943 and then in the Arctic. It had a PDF version which I did not have the sense to download.
Looking for the same site today all I got was this.
We're sorry, we were unable to locate the site /fleetairarmsprog/.
Could it be cached somewhere?