Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "HMS Unicorn (I72) - Guide 367" video.

@joelmontgomery4837 I would think that the limits of the naval treaties would have prevented Unicorn being built earlier. What puzzles me is why they put the resources into building a new non-frontline carrier, instead of converting Eagle to the support role, and using the resources to build a new fast, fleet carrier. Unicorn had vastly more hangar square footage, but Eagle's hanger had a higher overhead 20 1/2 feet, so, opening the possibility of hanging spare aircraft from the overhead, to partly compensate for the lack of square footage.
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