[Long Cut]

Hate to correct you, Chief, but the Graf Spee wasn't a carrier; she was a pocket battleship.

Rather than have the Brits sink her, her skipper ordered her sunk in the Rio de la Plata, in South America. Most of her deckplates and armor were salvaged by the Argentines. In fact, some Ballester-Molina 1911-A1 .45s were made of this steel. Legend has it that when the slide is racked, a ringing sound, like a bell clang, is heard.

Obviously, these pistols are highly valued.

If the Germans in WWII ever constructed a CV, I never heard of it. I'll have to look that up.

[Junior]

My bust. It was the Graf Zeppelin. I did a quick google search and discovered my error. According to one source she (or "he" as the Germans refer to their warships) was laid down 1936-12-28 and would have come in at 28,900 tons. She was never completed and was towed away as a war prize by the Russians at the end of the war (supposedly loaded to the scuppers with loot).

[Junior]

I found a few photos of the KMS Graf Zeppelin at this site. One wonders how the war would have gone had she ever been commissioned.

[Poohbah]

If the Germans in WWII ever constructed a CV, I never heard of it. I'll have to look that up.

They (bleeped) around with a couple of carrier designs: a CV named Graf Zeppelin, and a CVL named Seydlitz.