A viewer proposes using Moffett's flight-deck cruiser as the flagship of a convoy escort group. In modern terms, its aircraft could provide continuous anti-submarine coverage while its guns dealt with small surface raiders. That is a sensible 2025 interpretation, but it does not match how planners thought about the vessel in 1925. Evaluating the design requires reconstructing its original doctrine instead of assigning it a later mission that happens to suit its capabilities.
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Reading Moffett's flight-deck cruiser in its own time
A modern convoy-escort interpretation of Moffett's flight-deck cruiser may be sensible now without matching how its 1925 designers understood the ship.