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A 1954 Royal Navy medium fleet-carrier study

D. K. Brown records a 1954 Royal Navy medium fleet-carrier concept as one of several postwar options under consideration.

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Question

What was the Royal Navy's 1954 medium fleet aircraft-carrier proposal?

Short answer

It was one of several Royal Navy concepts considered in 1954 and is recorded in D. K. Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy.

Notes

The Royal Navy considered a medium fleet aircraft carrier among its options in 1954. D. K. Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy records the proposal alongside other contemporary ideas.