Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 232 (Part 2)" video.

  1. perk an alt history situation with all four Admiral class being continued. If two Admirals were completed as carriers, they, plus Argus, Hermes, Eagle, and Furious, would fill the RN's carrier tonnage quota under the treaty. That would mean Courageous and Glorious could not be converted, unless, Argus, Eagle and Hermes were all scrapped/reclassified, which would have been allowed under the WNT. If those three ships are eliminated to permit conversion of Courageous and Glorious, there would be no tonnage available for Ark Royal. If only one Admiral was converted to a carrier, that would leave enough tonnage for Courageous and Glorious, provided Argus was scrapped/reclassified. Then Eagle and Hermes could be scrapped/reclassified to clear tonnage for Ark Royal. The one Admiral conversion also has the virtue of making the math simple: the RN has three Admirals as "post-Jutland", the US has the three Colorados and Japan has the two Nagatos. On the other hand, there would be a tendency to convert two, because the US and Japan were converting two. The RN could forgo converting the Courageouses, which leaves them available to chase German raiders in 1940. I rather like the prospect of Courageous squaring off against Sheer, rather than Jervis Bay.
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