In his 1919 survey, d'Eyncourt calls carrier conversions among the war's most important ship modifications. He notes Furious and the conversion of a Raleigh-class cruiser as Vindictive, then describes Argus as a former 20-knot passenger mail ship given a flush deck and long horizontal exhaust ducts. Eagle was receiving a different large-carrier arrangement, foreshadowing the island and hangar choices discussed later in the video. D'Eyncourt closes by predicting that aircraft-carrying ships would become increasingly important to the fleet. This is a contemporary statement of carrier potential rather than later hindsight.
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D'Eyncourt's 1919 survey of carrier conversions
His wartime construction survey contrasts Argus, Vindictive, and Eagle before predicting that aircraft-carrying ships would become increasingly important to the fleet.