Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (The Mad Mathematician) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Left-handed carriers Keywords: carriers Message-ID: <1990Nov21.214718.17421@cbnews.att.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 21:47:18 GMT References: <1990Nov15.013451.1767@cbnews.att.com> <1990Nov16.051445.21240@cbnews.att.com> <1990Nov17.013736.26637@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (The Mad Mathematician) In article <1990Nov17.013736.26637@cbnews.att.com> mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) writes: >In article <1990Nov16.051445.21240@cbnews.att.com> I wrote: >> >>The training carrier Wolverine had a similar problem, this time a >>large crane opposite the island. >in addition, of course, to her side wheels (a converted Great Lakes >passenger ferry or something similar. Yes, it was a passenger ferry operating on the Great Lakes. But, no, the paddle wheels were not a problem. She and her sister ship the Sable were side-wheelers, and the added flight decks were above the tops of the wheels. In fact, in pictures of the ship the wheels are not obvious, and you have to know what you are looking for to see them. The ships were converted as interim training carriers. Their flight decks were 570' long, smaller than existing carriers, and they were slower. They also had no facilities for the aircraft, other than the flight decks, of course. There is a model of the Wolverine, converted from the Greater Buffalo, at the Naval and Serviceman's museum in Buffalo, NY. -- The Mad Mathematician jap2_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"