Internal Ark Royal papers describe Cammell Laird as experienced in large or strike carriers even though the yard had not officially completed one. An unfinished Admiral-class battlecruiser is the only known hull that fits a plausible conversion study, but no decisive order or plan has surfaced. The anomaly therefore supports a testable archival hypothesis rather than an established conversion project. Even if such a study existed, the counterfactual still converts Courageous and Glorious and does not save the unfinished Admiral-class ships.
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The archival clue behind an Admiral-class carrier theory
An Admiralty reference to Cammell Laird as a large-carrier specialist supports a tentative theory that the yard studied converting an unfinished Admiral-class battlecruiser.