seaplane carrier

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seaplane carrier (plural seaplane carriers)

  1. A type of warship, a form of seaplane tender and an early variety of aircraft carrier, which carries seaplanes onboard, and can launch and retrieve them, as well as tend to them.

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  • submarine aircraft carrier (the only constructed ones; the I-400 class, were seaplane carriers)

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