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- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit abstract "The Merchant Ship Fighter Unit (MSFU) was a Royal Air Force operational aircraft unit based at RAF Speke during World War II. The role of the MSFU was to provide pilots, crews, support personnel and aircraft to operate from 35 merchant ships outfitted with a catapult on the bow, referred to as Catapult Aircraft Merchant ships (CAM ships), a stop-gap initiative to provide air support to convoys out of reach of land in the early part of the war when aircraft carriers were scarce. The aircraft operated by the MSFU were converted Mk1 Hawker Hurricanes that were near the end of their useful lives and were often Battle of Britain veterans. The alterations included catapult fixing points and the addition of a naval radio. The MSFU was formed at Speke on 5 May 1941 and provided detachments to the CAM ships, each vessel being equipped with one Sea Hurricane plus an RAF pilot and support crew.The single catapult consisted of an eighty-five-foot rail, along which a trolley carrying a Hurricane (later Hurricats were used for this) would be propelled by a battery of three-inch rockets over a distance of sixty feet. Using thirty-degree wing flaps, a pilot could make a successful takeoff while losing minimal height.Most notable was the inability of the CAM ship to recover the aircraft, and as a result launches out of reach of land were one way flights that required the pilot to bail out or ditch in the sea when the aircraft's fuel was exhausted. While every effort was made to pick up the pilot, operational factors such as the convoy being under U-boat attack could mean that a ship may not be detached to pick up the pilot. On the convoys to Russia the low sea temperatures meant that the pilot had a low potential survival rate unless picked up very soon after landing in the sea.Eventually CAM ships were replaced beginning in 1943 with the introduction into service of escort carriers.CAM fighters were credited with seven kills and their presence was rumoured to discourage the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor aircraft from pressing home attacks on convoys.".
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- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageRevisionID "687862798".
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Britain.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink CAM_ship.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Liverpool.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_history_of_Liverpool.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_units_and_formations_of_the_Royal_Air_Force.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Escort_carrier.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Focke-Wulf_Fw_200_Condor.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Hawker_Hurricane.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Liverpool_John_Lennon_Airport.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Merchant_aircraft_carrier.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Air_Force.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cam Fighters".
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "Merchant Ship Fighter Unit".
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- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:RAF-stub.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit subject Category:History_of_Liverpool.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit subject Category:Military_history_of_Liverpool.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_of_the_Royal_Air_Force.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit hypernym Unit.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit type Organisation.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit type History.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit type Unit.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit comment "The Merchant Ship Fighter Unit (MSFU) was a Royal Air Force operational aircraft unit based at RAF Speke during World War II. The role of the MSFU was to provide pilots, crews, support personnel and aircraft to operate from 35 merchant ships outfitted with a catapult on the bow, referred to as Catapult Aircraft Merchant ships (CAM ships), a stop-gap initiative to provide air support to convoys out of reach of land in the early part of the war when aircraft carriers were scarce.".
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit label "Merchant Ship Fighter Unit".
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit sameAs Q6818387.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit sameAs m.026hrs7.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit sameAs Q6818387.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit wasDerivedFrom Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit?oldid=687862798.
- Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit isPrimaryTopicOf Merchant_Ship_Fighter_Unit.