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An earlier thread by me on amphibious shipping got well and truly trashed into a discussion on the merits of the Scimitar! Never mind, here goes, this is purely for info.
I found a cutting from an old Maritime Naval mag in the 80s which showed a Swan Hunter design for a LPH looking like a cross between a US Iwo Jima and the later HMS Ocean. It seems that had it not been for the financial probs of the 70s such a ship would have been ordered in the 70s to replace Hermes. It is a descendant of the 1960s Commando Carrier studies. No accident that it shared the same hull as the Invincibles which also stemmed
from the 1966 Working Group.
It was also planned to order two LPDs to a slightly modified Fearless design to replace the two. This also got kicked around until the 90s.
No threads about East of Suez etc please, only about the designs!
I found a cutting from an old Maritime Naval mag in the 80s which showed a Swan Hunter design for a LPH looking like a cross between a US Iwo Jima and the later HMS Ocean. It seems that had it not been for the financial probs of the 70s such a ship would have been ordered in the 70s to replace Hermes. It is a descendant of the 1960s Commando Carrier studies. No accident that it shared the same hull as the Invincibles which also stemmed
from the 1966 Working Group.
It was also planned to order two LPDs to a slightly modified Fearless design to replace the two. This also got kicked around until the 90s.
No threads about East of Suez etc please, only about the designs!
