British designers normally preferred internal lifts, but personal papers and constructor discussions include external or deck-edge lifts for a possible Admiral-class or G3 strike-carrier conversion. Moving a lift to the deck edge could preserve valuable internal hangar footprint on a roughly 30,000-ton ship. No surviving approved plan confirms that the idea progressed beyond discussion. The surviving evidence supports an exploratory interpretation and does not show that the Royal Navy committed to build it.
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British deck-edge lift studies - and their limits
Personal papers suggest that designers considered external lifts for large British carrier conversions, but no approved plan establishes that the idea would have been built.