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How a G3-based Royal Navy carrier might have looked

A brief description of an Admiral-class carrier proposal supports a tentative reconstruction of a G3 conversion along HMS Eagle's lines.

Question

Would a purpose-built 33,000-ton Royal Navy carrier based on the G3 have resembled HMS Hermes?

Short answer

An Eagle-style arrangement is the tentative proposal, extrapolated from a brief description of an Admiral-class conversion.

Notes

A one-line description of a 1918 conversion proposal provides the basis for this reconstruction. Clarke identifies it as an Admiral-class hull intended to receive an Eagle-style conversion. He tentatively applies that same arrangement to a G3-based carrier. Eagle's hangar offered the largest height then considered practical, which mattered because future aircraft development remained uncertain.