A photograph of a Flycatcher aboard HMS Eagle prompts a comparison with the Royal Navy's later Invincible-class through-deck cruisers, often described as light or baby carriers. The resemblance rests on role as well as styling: ships designed around a broadly similar cruiser-carrier function can converge on some of the same visible arrangements. HMS Hermes also fits that interwar role, while HMS Argus fits the comparison less well. This is a limited argument about carrier-design continuity; the ships did not have identical capabilities.
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Why HMS Eagle and Hermes resemble later through-deck cruisers
A Flycatcher photograph prompts a role-based comparison between interwar cruiser-carriers and the Royal Navy's later Invincible-class through-deck cruisers.