British and American carrier safety converge

How similar were late-war American and British carriers in fire prevention?

They were not identical, but wartime experience pushed both navies toward many of the same safety and survivability priorities.

Malta and Midway were parallel responses to wartime experience. By 1945 the two navies had incorporated many similar fire-prevention and survivability priorities. The ships were different designs, and each navy retained its own philosophy of naval aviation. Combat experience nevertheless pushed the institutions toward comparable engineering solutions. The comparison provides a bridge between British and American late-war carrier development.