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CAM, n.4|kæm| Also C.A.M. ship, ˈcam-ship. [f. the initials of Catapult Aircraft Merchant-ship.] A merchant-ship equipped with a fighter plane launched by catapult.
1943Cosmopolitan Aug. 14/1 Every eye was turned instinctively to the C.A.M., the convoy's Catapult Aircraft Merchantship, the defiant reply of the Royal Air Force to Nazi air assault on British merchant shipping. 1944A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II 18 CAM: Catapult Aircraft Merchantship. Adopted by the RAF, to accompany and afford protection to convoys. 1945L. R. Gribble Battle Stories RAF vii. 18 Volunteered to fly with convoys as a catafighter on a Cam-ship. 1954P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm 152 These catapult ships were known as Camships. 1956‘Taffrail’ Arctic Convoy xix. 201 A ‘C.A.M.’ ship..an ordinary cargo-carrier fitted with a catapult forward with a single Hurricane fighter. |