The Royal Navy had been cautious about reusing Invincible after the battlecruiser's loss at Jutland. For the new through-deck ship, however, the name evoked both cruiser status and a historical leap into a new warship type. It also carried prestige without simply creating another Illustrious class tied to Second World War carrier memory. That framing may have helped the unfamiliar design survive the political and bureaucratic tests of British procurement.
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The name Invincible helped frame a new carrier as a cruiser tradition
Reviving Invincible linked the new ship to battlecruiser innovation and naval prestige without repeating an Illustrious-class identity rooted directly in the Second World War.