Search results for query: Implacable

TBH I suspect Implacable and Indefatigable get the green light for modernization and it would take to at least 1957. And then the Sandys review in 1957 hits and the Royal Navy has four fleet carriers already: Eagle, Ark, Implacable, and Indefatigable. What they do with an extra, unmodernized...

...know how bad of a condition Illustrious and especially Formidable would end up in. The three original design Illustrious’ would be a more attractive option since there’s more of them to rebuild to one single design, compared to the two Implacables, and then Indomitable who was her own unique...

To rebuild the Implacables, and make a decent outcome. Requires an upfront decision in favour of a full Victorious style rebuild and reboilering. Essentially everything above the lower hanger deck floor would need to stripped off and redone to a new design. What is clear is that they never...

Yeah pretty much. Regrettably the time frame I have in this precludes the Implacable's since they would have been sent to the breakers a year prior

so if rebuilding implacables will be to difficult, would it be better to give eagle and Ark Royal the full rebuild then? Then also build the 1952 type Carrier design to replace the other war time carriers?

Honestly has more to do with the fact that the Midways, and to a lesser extent the Essences were more or less Treaty-unlimited designs, whereas the Illustrious class, Indomitable and Implacables were all built within Treaty constraints.

Complete 'Tangent' I accept, but stumbled across this Shipbucket image that I saved early last year. It's OBVIOUSLY Fan Art and the ship is named as Indomitable, but, given an 'ideal world', could Implacable/Indefatigable been something like this?

The Treaty did not cease to be until 3rd September 1939. It was very much alive on 21st February 1939 which was when Implacable was laid down. Indefatigable wasn't laid down until 3rd November 1939, but it was ordered before the war broke out. In any case the POD's 1948.

Stupid me, we have a perfectly good thread here. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/its-1948-or-maybe-1945-what-would-you-do-with-implacables-illustrious-carriers.34987/ Which confirms my fears that the 6 armoured carriers were an hopeless mess.

If E-in-C gets minimum power predicted of 42,000shp (3 plants giving the 126,000shp figure), then this is somewhat transformative. Implacables are now much more a development of Illustrious. Likely with the still limited height double hanger of OTL. This make Indomitable still an intermediate...