Photo #: S-511-44 "Aircraft Carrier Converted from 6" Cruiser Class CL55" Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during the development of the Independence class small aircraft carrier design. This scheme, dated 4 September 1941, provides a flight deck similar in size to that ultimately adopted, with a larger hangar, smaller aircraft elevators, a conventional island and an anti-aircraft battery of eight 40mm twin mounts. Scale of the original drawings is 1/32" = 1'. The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book" held by the Naval Historical Center. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 94KB; 2000 x 1095 pixels