Charles Madden's enormous 1919 carrier fleet proposal

What role did Charles Madden play in early Royal Navy aviation planning?

He was a senior advocate of a remarkably large postwar fleet that included dozens of aircraft carriers.

Charles Madden later became First Sea Lord and was no simple battleship conservative. His 1919 thinking included an enormous postwar fleet rather than a choice between guns and aviation. Papers associated with the proposal contemplated roughly 30 battleships, 12 battlecruisers, and as many as 48 aircraft carriers. The scale makes Madden a useful counterexample to the claim that senior Royal Navy officers dismissed carrier aviation after the First World War.