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Graf Zeppelin could accelerate British carrier building

Completing Graf Zeppelin could change British construction priorities and keep the Illustrious class moving through wartime disruption.

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A completed Graf Zeppelin would influence more than German operations against Arctic convoys. The threat could accelerate British carrier procurement or at least prevent pauses in construction. The Illustrious-class ships might be completed on schedule or slightly earlier, although the later Implacables could still face delay. Workers from battleship slips could transfer relatively easily to carriers being built in the same yards, unlike the more difficult task of moving them into corvette production elsewhere.