Escort Carrier with angled flight deck

[tigercat]

If the concept of the angled flight deck had been arrived at earlier and it was a conceptual rather than a technological development so  the only  limitation is for someone to come with the idea and see a need for it , would it have been possible to apply it to the escort carrier and therefore give them more deck space for their aircraft and allow them a larger complement of aircraft.

[Gondor]

The angled flight deck was not designed to make more space and allow more aircraft to be carried.

It was designed so that there would be no need for crash barriers across the flight deck and the sometimes often catastrophic crashes that happened because the only direction for aircraft that were landing was straight into the aircraft parked at the front of the deck.
The angled deck meant any problem an aircraft that was landing it could either go around or into the drink without causing damage to the aircraft parked at the front of the deck.

Gondor

[Joe C-P]

Escort carriers wouldn't have gained much benefit. Their decks were so small that adding an angled deck wouldn't have gained much deck space.
The fleet carriers would, of course, have been much improved, though not as much as surmised - it was using catapults that allowed  proper use of more efficient deck parking. Early on the angled deck would have made landing safer, by reducing the need for a barricade, but the long run-up required to launch without a catapult sent all the planes aft anyway.

But go ahead and build one, and you can come up with your own explanation.  

[pyro-manic]

Try a widened deck? So you can have a full-length take-off run, and more space to stop when landing even with a deck park. OK, you'll end up with ungainly-looking ships with big overhanging sponson structure and possibly some serious topweight issues, but if you're only flying off Stringbags or light fighters the deck doesn't need to be enormously heavy...

[tigercat]

good idea.

Have you seen the overhang on the US paddle carriers

http://www.carrierbuilders.net/element/element.php?id=555

[Joe C-P]

That is a great model. I remember the first time I saw a model of Wolverine, up at the naval museum in Buffalo, NY - I loved it!

The late-model Midways also had impressive overhangs.

You could sponson out the island to push some weight farther out on the starboard side to allow for an angled extension on the port side.