Description Aircraft Carrier Weser.Proposed German Navy auxiliary aircraft carrier. The loss of BISMARCK to British carrier-borne aircraft and surface salvos in May 1941 and aerial attacks on TIRPITZ in March 1942, emphasised to the German High Command the strategic importance of aircraft carriers. Project WESER 1 was a planned carrier conversion of an unfinished Admiral Hipper Class heavy cruiser, SEYDLITZ, berthed at Bremen. But the reconstruction wasn’t completed; works had begun in 19
