Aircraft carrier
Portaaviones
- Date
- 1918–1922 · confidence high
- Place
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England (Armstrong Whitworth)
- Credited to
- Royal Navy (HMS Argus, first flush deck, 1918); Hōshō (first ship designed as a carrier, Japan, 1922); Eugene Ely (first take-off from a ship, 1910)
- People
- 👤 Eugene Burton Ely1886–1911
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Ship with a flight deck for launching and landing aircraft, projecting air power at sea. It replaced the battleship as the core of fleets.
What it led to
- Pearl Harbor, Midway and the war in the Pacific
- Post-war projection of US naval power
- Naval aviation and the steam catapult
Built on
Made possible
- Steam catapult
- Angled flight deck
- Carrier-based aviation