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...German and Japanese spies and generally foiling all kinds of plots. Dave Dawson in Libya, 1941 Great Britain HMS Victory - aircraft carrier, air group includes Blackburn Skua fighters Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet, 1942 United States USS Indian - aircraft carrier, air group includes...

...the World War II pulp mags... Sam Carson, Get That Carrier!, published in Fighting Aces, March 1943 United States USS Champlain 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. Japan Unnamed 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. Plot...

John Franklin Carter (Pen name: Jay Franklin), Rat Race, 1947 United States USS Alaska 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. Note: Name clashes with that of the lead ship of the Alaska Class Battlecruisers which was in service 1944 - 1947, scrapped 1960. This ship...

Albert Weinberg, Le mur du Silence, 1959 Canada R.C.M. Montcalm Audacious-class (?) aircraft carrier The Montcalm is described as one of the newest units in the Canadian Navy in 1959. Used as a test base for special aircraft and rockets. Ex-Japanese Empire officiers secret society Samouraï des...

Yves Sente & André Juillard, Le baton de Plutarque - Plutarch's Staff / 2014 United Kingdom : HMS The Intrepid Colossus-class aircraft carrier / trials carrier Air Group : Seafire & Barracuda (First Bomber Sqn), used for tests of single-seat Golden Rocket fighter.

My facsimile reprint of the 1931 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships has several pages with photos of Japanese aircraft carriers. In all, 54 pages on the Imperial Japanese Navy, with photos of battleships, cruisers, carriers, destroyers, submarines. Many of the images from the late 20s. So yes...

Anon., Odd Man Out, published as Commando Comics Nº.2941, 1996 United Kingdom Unnamed Aircraft Carrier, class not specified Note: Illustration is clearly based off HMS Argus, the RNs first Aircraft Carrier and the ship that would probably have launched the aborted carrier strike on the High...

Yes, it's in Final Flight, Jake Grafton serie. At the centre of the plot is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

A .E. Langsford, HMS Flexible, 1991 United Kingdom HMS Inflexible Illustrious Class Aircraft Carrier Details as per the real ships HMS Invincible Illustrious Class Aircraft Carrier Details as per the real ships HMS Irresisible Illustrious Class Aircraft Carrier Details as per the real ships...

Thanks for the clarification, it's just I've never enountered the Kiev Class Carriers being referred to as 'Minsk Class Carriers' before and going by the second novel the author thinks biological & chemical warfare are the same thing...

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IJN Yonaga- enlarged Shinano-type aircraft carrier. From THE SEVENTH CARRIER book series by Peter Albano Plot summary: IJN Yonaga, the seventh carrier assigned to the Pearl Harbor strike, is trapped in Arctic ice while awaiting the strike order. 42 years later, the ship emerges, hell-bent on...

Purely technically, "Minsk" was Project 1143.2 carrier-cruiser - a subclass of basic Project 1143 "Kiev"-class. Truth is, that each of "Kiev"-class ships was different from each other, so they could be, in theory, considered as different classes.

Daniel Winters, Death Flies East, published in Dare Devil Aces, November 1942 United States USS Hawk 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. Japan Mitatogi 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. The ship depicted in the illustration that...

From a 1950s comic book, part two... Anon., Red Pigeons, published in Navy Task Force, Oct 1955 United States USS Ventura 'Aircraft Carrier', class not specified No other details provided. Note: Described as the "..pride of the United States Navy..." Plot summary: During the Korean War a US...

The bow is not enclosed; looks like "Courageous"-class (however it could also be the escort one)

...belongs here, as the ship is only incidental to the plot . . . Arthur C. Clarke, 'A Meeting with Medusa, 1971 China? Chairman Mao Aircraft Carrier (Fictional) The author states that :- "So far, this first test flight had gone perfectly; ironically enough, the only problem had been the...

Eric J. Collenette, Eye Of The Eagle, 1986 HMS Cyclops Centaur Class Aircraft Carrier(?) Details as per the real ships as if they had been completed in WWII. Note: Author only refers to her as a 'Light Fleet Carrier' and later states it's tonnage (24,000 tons) is that of the Centaur Class. This...

'Aircraft Mavens' reading the thread are advised that the entry for the novel 'Carrier: Typhoon Season' (2000) by Keith Douglass (Pseud.) has been updated to include the fictional UAVs that are featured in the plot.

Your and thus the authors description fits more into the VSS or VSTOL Support Ship designs which were 210m long except the last Design IV with it's 237,7m length and 23.000tons displacement standard. Airgroup for this last larger design was to be a mixed VSTOL, STOL aircraft and helicopters (15...