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From: lynch@arcadien.rice.edu (Robert Preston Lynch)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Left-handed carriers
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Date: 15 Nov 90 01:34:51 GMT
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From: lynch@arcadien.rice.edu (Robert Preston Lynch)
Just thinking...

Each and every last representation of an aircraft carrier I have
ever seen shows a carrier with the control tower on the right
hand side.

Did anybody, anywhere, ever build a left-handed aircraft carrier?

Thanks.
-- 
Robert Lynch           lynch@rice.edu
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Yellow ribbons...but no red flags?


[mod.note:  Yes, the Japanese Akagi had a port-side island.  This was
added during a reconstruction, the original having no island, and
apparently the port side was the only place with room to spare.  The
Hiryu also had a port-side island, though her sister-ship, Soryu,
was completed first, and with the island to starboard. 
	Of course, some carriers, especially from WWII and previously,
had no islands at all. - Bill ]