Escort carrier
The escort carrier is a type of Porte-avions of small size which was built and used during the Second world war. These ships were designed initially to ensure an air protection the convoys of ships which sailed at too long distance from the coasts to be able to be protected by planes based with ground. Slightly armed and protected, sailing at a speed lower than 20 node S, they were not conceived to take part in the naval battles in which some of them in spite of were very implied in the Pacific Ocean (Bataille of the gulf of Leyte).
In the battles of the Atlantic, these ships played a crucial role in the protection of the convoys against the German attacks of Sous-marin S by detecting them and possibly by attacking them. In the Pacific, the American escort carriers played of multiple roles like the air protection of the convoys, the transport of planes towards the bases moved away, protection against the submarines and the support of the operations on the ground.
These boats, of a Displacement ranging between 10.000 and 20.000 tons, were often built starting from commercial ship hulls or passenger; nevertheless the United States carried out a series of 50 ships designed upon the departure with this use. The majority of the escort carriers were built by the United States, the the United Kingdom and the Japan.
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