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"The desingnation of "floatplane Carrier" is inaccurate and highly missleading. These ships are in fact "float plane tenders" designed to provide maintinence and rearguard deployment for seaplanes and they are equiped with a very rudimentary defence armament.
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Naval surface vessels not specifically built as fighting ships
which are employed on fleet duties or as troop transports or in
some other way than as fighting ships, provided they have none of
the following characteristics:
blah, blah, blah
( Mount more than one aircraft-launching apparatus on the
centre line; or two, one on each broadside;
(9) If fitted with any means of launching aircraft into the air,
are designed or adapted to operate at sea more than ten
aircraft.
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