From here, for the time being, you can only see one outline of the other party, but just by looking at that silhouette, you know that it is an aircraft carrier!

Not bad, definitely an aircraft carrier!

As the high-magnification telescope continued to be fine-tuned, he soon saw clearly that the flat flight deck, the huge chimney on the starboard side were integrated with the superstructure, and the entire warship had the obvious characteristics of a British aircraft carrier.

But now, the British in the Atlantic, there are no aircraft carriers, and besides, the British naval flag fluttering in the wind on the warships is not the British naval flag, not in terms of color!

"Attention, fifteen nautical miles ahead, thirty degrees to starboard, an aircraft carrier has been found, suspected to be a French aircraft carrier!" Karl shouted out through the intercom.

The French, too, have aircraft carriers, it's just that this aircraft carrier, in this era, is basically unknown.

This was the USS Bayarn, the aircraft carrier, originally the No. 5 battleship of the Normandy class, whose construction began on January 10, 1914.

Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the First World War, a large number of workers were drafted into the army and other armaments were given priority, and the construction of the Normandy class was slow or even halted altogether.

By the end of World War I, not even a single battleship with four main guns had been built.

After the war, the French considered the Normandy-class design to be outdated, and the Washington Naval Treaty signed between France and the Western powers in February 1922 led the French military to scrap and dismantle the unfinished Normandy-class battleships.

At this time, the French Navy realized that Britain, the United States, Japan and other countries had begun to build or renovate aircraft carriers that went straight to the deck. France also urgently needs to conduct research on carrier-based aviation. To this end, the French Navy decided to transform the No. 5 ship "Beyan", which has the lowest degree of completion, into an experimental aircraft carrier.

The French Navy's technical regiment once boarded the British aircraft carrier "Hundred-Eyed Giant" for inspection, and in the process of rebuilding the "Béarn," it drew a great deal of successful experience from the British aircraft carriers, so that the newly built warships also had many of the external characteristics of British aircraft carriers.

The aircraft carrier has a full load displacement of 28,000 tons and can carry up to 40 carrier-based aircraft. In addition to carrier-based aircraft, the ship itself has strong self-defense firepower and is equipped with eight 155-mm single-barreled naval guns.

Unfortunately, because of the problem of the engine, the maximum speed of this aircraft carrier is just over 20 knots, and it is quite inconvenient to operate the carrier-based aircraft, so until the end of the war, this aircraft carrier was almost unknown.

However, for France, this aircraft carrier turned out to be quite important, because it managed to transport French gold!

Yes, this is the task that the French Navy has assigned to its own aircraft carriers! Although this aircraft carrier is a bit of a chicken rib, it is an aircraft carrier after all!

Using an aircraft carrier to transport gold, then joining the United States, and starting to use this aircraft carrier as an aircraft carrier, this thing is unpleasant, but this is the mission of the Bayarn.

And now, this aircraft carrier is performing this mission.

The cruisers Joan of Arc and Belden were responsible for transporting gold from Brest, while the Bayarn was responsible for transporting gold from the port of Toulon.

After all, Germany couldn't take care of everything, so it still let the Béarn load gold from the port of Toulon, and besides, it was relatively smooth in the port of Toulon, and drove all the way here!

The USS Bjarn, preparing to continue northward, joined two other cruisers, and when the three ships converged, they crossed the Atlantic Ocean and finally arrived at the port of Halifax, Canada.

The gold from the port of Toulon was transported only once, and the rest was transported directly to the African colonies to which France belonged, after all, it was closer.

And now, the Bjarn is still sailing on its own course, and it has no vigilance.

Now, the French top can be described as a mess. Brest was attacked, which frightened the French, who did not know the inside story, felt that the Germans were opening up a second battlefield and fought from the other direction, and those who knew the inside story felt even more terrible, and the Germans actually had a clear insight into their own gold transportation plan.

If the gold is intercepted by the Germans, then there really will be no future for France!

In such a situation, everyone was in a mess, and no one thought to inform the fact that they were still going to the Atlantic Ocean to join the two sunken warships according to the plan!

In this way, the Bayane sailed normally on the route, and the fishing boats around it were also a good cover for it, and it could better hide its tracks by mixing in the fishing boats.

Until now, Spain has not joined the war, which has left many people lucky.

On the bridge, General Laborde, who was at the head of this maritime operation, was to lead three warships to Canada.

The situation has deteriorated so fast that the French Republic can't hold out for even half a month?

He was concerned about the French Republic, about the situation in World War II as a whole, and he was not worried about his warship.

Although the Germans had taken control of the east coast of the Atlantic, the sea was too vast for their formation of three warships to have no problems along the way, as long as they were not on the way.

At the beginning, in the early days of World War II, when German submarines were at their most vicious, many captains found nothing after going to sea, and often could not find their targets for half a month.

And now, in the fishing boats, they are much safer.

This sense of security has taken a heavy toll on them.

On the bridge, the person in charge of the lookout is the intern, Paul, he has just joined the Navy for less than a month, this nearly 30,000-ton battleship, is still relatively stable, but, looking into the distance, after a long time, there will always be a faint in front of him.

Anyway, there is no one to supervise, so he does it casually, take a look, rest for a while, on the sea, at most, it is just a fishing boat, nothing to see.

His carelessness caused the entire warship to suffer a catastrophe!

At this time, the German German-class battleship Count Spee, had already discovered it!

When the lookout post reported, the captain, Admiral Landsdorf, immediately aimed his telescope at the sea, and soon he was ecstatic.

"Report to the fleet immediately, we have discovered the aircraft carrier of the French Navy, and in order to protect the safety of our fleet, attack now!" Colonel Landsdorf said.

Attack now! He couldn't wait for a long time, it was really boring to be the nanny of these landing ships, and now, with a big target, he was on his own way, of course, he was going to attack!

"Attention the whole ship, battle alert!" Admiral Landsdorf continued to give the order: "All main guns, immediately reload armor-piercing shells!" Two cars, three forward, ready to grab the firing position! ”