Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Comparing Hermes-style G3 and Eagle-style Admiral conversions

Eagle and Hermes shared a broad arrangement, but Eagle offers the more relevant conversion model and the larger hangar.

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Question

Would a Hermes-style G3 carrier conversion be better than an Eagle-style Admiral-class conversion?

Short answer

The answer favors Eagle's arrangement for its larger hangar, while stressing that Hermes and Eagle used a related layout and Hermes itself was purpose-built.

Notes

The question compares a Hermes-style conversion of a G3 with an Eagle-style conversion of an Admiral-class hull. Eagle and Hermes shared a broad arrangement, with Eagle influencing Hermes and subsequent purpose-built British carriers. Eagle also had the larger hangar, which gives its arrangement the advantage in the answer. Because Hermes was purpose-built, a Hermes-style conversion can only mean borrowing features such as its hangar layout. The exchange clarifies those design labels without calculating the relative aircraft capacity of the two hypothetical converted hulls.