The German aircraft carrier I was a planned conversion of the transport ship Europa during World War II. The loss of the battleship Bismarck and near torpedoing of her sistership Tirpitz in May 1941 a
The ship in her original guise as Europa
A Bf 109T-1, the type I would have carried
SS Europa (1928)
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SS Europa, later SS Liberté IMO 5607332, was an ocean liner built for the German shipping company Norddeutsche Lloyd to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched in 1928, she and her sister ship, Bre
German aircraft carrier I (1942)
…The German aircraft carrier I was a planned conversion of the transport ship Europa during World War II. The loss of the battleship Bismarck and near torpedoing of her sistership Tirpitz in May 1941 and March 1942, respectively, spurred…
Europa burning and listing during her fitting out
Heinkel He 58 D-1919 Bremen Atlantic being loaded onto the catapult on SS Europa
USS Europa in dazzle camouflage in Bremerhaven, May 1945