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<blockquote data-quote="TinWing" data-source="post: 72045" data-attributes="member: 10"><a href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg</a><a href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg" target="_blank">http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg</a>To translate a comment from the original poster, ENRR, these drawings were &quot;from the UK alternative to Argus.&quot;Indeed, they do seem to depict a ship based on a commercial Ro-Ro design, perhaps even with machinery arrangements similar to RFA Argus, albeit with a carrier-type island rather than a forward superstructure.&nbsp; It is interesting that the painting show the &quot;R&quot; prefix of an aircraft carrier, not the &quot;L&quot; of an amphibious ship or the &quot;A&quot; that would be expected on an auxiliary vessel?However, an edition of Jane's All the World's Warships from around 1990 has an identical profile listed as a &quot;LPH ,&quot; apparently illustrating a competing design to the requirement that eventually lead to HMS Ocean.&nbsp; Jane's listed a displacement of 17,000 tons, a length of 190m and a beam of 34m.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TinWing, post: 72045, member: 10"] [url=http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg[/url] [url=http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg[/url] To translate a comment from the original poster, ENRR, these drawings were "from the UK alternative to Argus." Indeed, they do seem to depict a ship based on a commercial Ro-Ro design, perhaps even with machinery arrangements similar to RFA Argus, albeit with a carrier-type island rather than a forward superstructure. It is interesting that the painting show the "R" prefix of an aircraft carrier, not the "L" of an amphibious ship or the "A" that would be expected on an auxiliary vessel? However, an edition of Jane's All the World's Warships from around 1990 has an identical profile listed as a "LPH ," apparently illustrating a competing design to the requirement that eventually lead to HMS Ocean. Jane's listed a displacement of 17,000 tons, a length of 190m and a beam of 34m. [/QUOTE]

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