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RN standardised the Ark Royal as their war emergency carrier design

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Volkodav:
Sort of like what I was speculating for the Implacables but using Sea Sprites due to limits in hanger height.

A more fanciful whiff of mine is the UK continues with building all four Audacious, eight Hermes as well as the three Maltas post war due to the Soviet threat and the realisation that Illustrious and Formidable are in poor condition and the remaining carriers are simply too small in the light of how doctrine (not to mention aircraft) has developed.  Financial reality soon curtails these plans but the ships exist in various states of completion and can be made available for sale as the Majestics were.

I imagine the Maltas would be retained and upgraded, as would some of the Hermes but everything else would be up for grabs.  RAN Eagle off the coast of Korea, flying Seahawks and Venoms, here we come.  ;)

Volkodav:

--- Quote from: GTX_Admin on April 26, 2014, 03:55:29 AM ---Something like this perhaps:



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Did the Vigilante ever fly off the Essex class CVAs?

Volkodav:
I now have 1/700 Aoshima Ark Royal and Victorious, Orange Hobby Modernised Victorious, Fujimi Eagle, Dragon Invincible (Falkland's Edition) and an Essex (cant remember which one  :( ) , Revell Kearsarge as well as an old (over thirty years), partially built Airfix 1/600 Victorious.

Thinking:
Ark Royal as either a UK built sister ship crewed by the RAN, or as an Australian built half sister with two shafts (fixing the vulnerability that sunk Ark) and a reprofiled flight deck making full use of her length, as well as larger lifts.  The other thought is a post war upgrade of either of the first two options for service in Korea operating either post war RN FAA types or surplus USN types.

Victorious either OOB, as transferred to the RAN after serving with the USN with the call sign Robin in 1943, an Australian built half sister with US airgroup, post war Korean service with RAN with either post war RN FAA types or USN types.

Modernised Victorious as RAN, either as bought in the late 50s prior to the completion of her modernisation, or as refitted after her minor fire in 1968 and transfer to RAN, alternatively as an Australian built ship that was incomplete and suspended at the end of the war and then completed to a design based on Vic's modernisation but with Mk6 3"/70s, Seacat etc.

Eagle, really not sure, will likely use bits on other projects as required and do major surgery on what's left.  My only thought on her, which is beyond my skill level, is there was a rumour with Australia deciding to develop a two ocean navy in the late 60s that the fleet would grow to 23 destroyers and frigates plus three larger, more capable carriers, with these ships being Eagle, Hermes and Victorious.

Invincible as an RAN derivative of the RN Escort Cruiser concept, may even be nuclear powered.

The Essex as a USN reserve ship transferred to the RN during Korea and maybe retained into the 60s, possibly as a CVS or maybe as an LPH.  Don't know if she will be completed with a Korean War type air group FAA or USN, a CVS group or a RAM assault group.

Kearsarge, most likely as a RAN CVS with cats and traps, trackers or maybe Vikings, Hawkeyes, Sea Kings / Seahawks / Merlins, and maybe even a CTOL fighter attack type of some sort.  Alternatively OOB as a RAN LHD with USMC type group.

The 1/600 Victorious as a modernised 1/700 RN Malta.  Incomplete at the end of the war Malta, or maybe the entire class were completed during the late 50s to a fully modernised design.  This is where some of the Eagle bits will go as well as some Tiger conversion bits from Shapeways and I will try and copy the relevant bits from the Orange Hobby Vic, i.e. the Type 984 etc.

M.A.D:
So it would be something like this:

MAD

M.A.D:
You're probably already familiar with the planned modernisation of the two Implacables:


--- Quote ---The two Implacables were tentatively scheduled to be modernised in 1953–55 with Implacable following Victorious. The draft Staff Requirements were drawn up in July 1951. This included combining the two hangars into a single 17-foot-6-inch (5.33 m) hangar, strengthening the flight deck and aircraft handling equipment to deal with 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) aircraft, enlarging the lifts to 55 by 32 feet (16.8 by 9.8 m), adding a gallery deck between the hangar and the flight deck to accommodate the additional personnel required, the addition of steam catapults, and the increase of her aviation fuel stowage to 240,000 imperial gallons (1,100,000 l; 290,000 US gal). Other desired improvements were new boilers to increase her endurance, more space for the latest radars, and the replacement of her anti-aircraft armament with the British version of the 3"/70 Mark 26 gun and sextuple mounts for the Bofors guns.

Implacable was scheduled to begin her modernisation in April 1953 for completion in 1956, but the Director of Dockyards pointed out that existing schedules prevented her from beginning any earlier than April 1955 unless the modernisations of two cruisers and the guided missile test ship RFA Girdle Ness were delayed. The Controller of the Navy asked if the time and cost of the reconstruction could be reduced, but the minimum modifications were the most expensive as they involved structural alterations. The Controller ordered the Director of Dockyards to plan for rebuilding Implacable between June 1953 and December 1956 even after the latter protested that even a limited modernisation would require about three-quarters of the structural work of the original plan and that the shortage of skilled workers (already insufficient for Victorious by herself) would delay work on both ships. In order to reduce the amount of structural work, the requirement to replace the boilers was cancelled and the ship would receive existing radars instead of systems then still under development. In January 1952, the ship's new armament was finalized at six twin-gun 3"/70 mounts and three sextuple Bofors mounts. Five months later the Admiralty decided that Victorious would be the last fleet carrier modernised as experience showed that the process would take longer and cost more than was practicable."

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It would be interesting to see drawings of this proposed modernised Implacable, if they exist🤔

MAD

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