Australia's first aircraft carrier

[bob10]

HMAS Albatross.


Snippets of History - HMAS ALBATROSS (I) | Fleet Air Arm Association of Australia (https://www.faaaa.asn.au/snippets-history-hmas-albatross/)

[Eevo]

seaplane tender

[JDNSW]

Unless I am mistaken, the world's first purpose built aircraft carrier.

And for those who feel it is not a 'proper' aircraft carrier - it carried aircraft.

In the event, seaplane carriers turned out to be pretty much a dead end, although many warships, usually cruisers, but including everything from submarines to battleships were designed betweeen the wars to carry seaplanes, with storage and dedicated launch/recovery equipment. Some of the larger vessels even had catapults, I think.

But by the mid 1920s it was clear that the future was large ships with flight decks, and a sufficient speed to knock a fair bit off the length of needed deck.

[3toes]

Would radar have done a lot of the same job that a sea plane did?

[JDNSW]

Would radar have done a lot of the same job that a sea plane did?

Part of it. But seaplanes can operate "over the horizon", and can often spot submerged submarines. And seaplanes were operational twenty years before radar.

[101RRS]

Would radar have done a lot of the same job that a sea plane did?

They did not have radar back then.

[bob10]

They did not have radar back then.

I'm not even sure they had radios back then

[JDNSW]

I'm not even sure they had radios back then

That is correct. They did, however, have wireless telegraphy, and I have a contemporary (1925) Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy to prove it.

Radios came later after the Americanisation of Australian English.

[bob10]

That is correct. They did, however, have wireless telegraphy, and I have a contemporary (1925) Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy to prove it.

Radios came later after the Americanisation of Australian English.

In the aircraft?