Another unit of the greatest fleet of aircraft carriers in the world last week got her commission from the Navy. She was the 20,000-ton Hornet (cost: $31,000,000), whose broad decks can accommodate 80 planes. The addition of the Hornet brought the number of active U.S. carriers up to seven, ranging in tonnage from the 14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,000-ton Lexington and Saratoga, which were started as battle cruisers before their conversion in 1927. Although numerically the British and Japanese are credited with superiority over the U.S. in carriersĀEngland has eight, Japan nineĀthe...
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