Drawing by Logan U. Reavis (1887, Saint Louis, USA, 1 June 1958 (Hempstead, USA).
The carrier-cruiser was presented as a newcomer (1) and a one-ship task fore for offensive sorties on a scale too small for full task forces but too large and/or important for an unaccompanied cruiser group. An example “she would be very useful as an escort for valuable convoys, such as the deep-sea portion of a ship-borne troop movement’ part of a invasion. Her displacement was 12,000 tons, main dimensions 650 x 75 feet and a speed of 35 knots.
Legend of the drawing could just partly be read:
1. Fore 1x3-27.94cm/11” guns
2. ... guns
3. 6”?) guns with full .. degree arch fire.
1. Recatractable fire control station
2. Side stack
6. Aft 1x3-27.94cm11” guns
7. Elevator for aircaft
8. Radio masts and antennas.
9. Retractable range finders.
10. Tradmill accelerator.
11. Medium bombers.
Note
1. He was an industrial and marine working as illustrator and writers for newspapers but also for the United States Lines and other shipbuilding related industry. In the 1950s he made promotional maps and brochures to celebrate the passenger ship ss United States which won the Blue Riband in 1932.
Source
‘The shape of ships to come’ in: The navy of the Future, The Collier’s, 13 March 1943.
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