Scout-carrier aircraft can search for submarines and suppress boats operating on the surface. With a design and trained force available before the war, Britain could begin an emergency scout-carrier programme alongside Flower-class corvettes and Hunt-class escort destroyers. Simpler civilianized derivatives could follow the military design, using the Flower and Black Swan comparison to explain the relationship. Canada and Australia could also contribute construction if the ships used cruiser machinery and building methods their yards could support.
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Scout carriers turn into convoy air cover
The smaller carriers give the Royal Navy a pre-war design and trained force for anti-submarine and convoy work, rather than creating escort carriers only after the war exposes the need.