These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers.
It was an uninspired design, but it did boost the anti aircraft capacity in Norway significantly when adopted.
At the beginning of the Pacific War, there would be 10 large carriers with a total aircraft capacity of about 600.
The ships in this class were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all preceding American-built escort carriers.
This led to a decision to fill spare long-haul aircraft capacity with third-party work.
Since then, the old terminal would be demolished in order to build more spaces for apron and more aircraft capacity.
The ship's aircraft capacity was 25 to 30 and, in 1939, the ship's crew totalled 41 officers and 750 men, exclusive of the air group.
The flight deck and hangar areas were enlarged, increasing the carrier's aircraft capacity.
Anti-aircraft warfare was considered important even before the war began, due to Sweden's small aircraft capacity in the 1930s.
By 1921, it was becoming apparent that aircraft capacity needed to be larger for the economics to remain favourable.