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Would HMS Ocean have followed Unicorn?

Additional Unicorn-type support ships would have received individual names, and the cited files make it ninety-nine percent certain that HMS Ocean was next.

Question

Would four Unicorn-type aviation-support ships have been numbered Unicorn 1 through 4 or individually named?

Short answer

They would have had individual names, and the cited files make it ninety-nine percent certain that the next ship would have been HMS Ocean.

Notes

The planned follow-ons would have received individual ship names rather than numerical designations. The cited files make it ninety-nine percent certain that the next Unicorn-type aviation-support ship would have been HMS Ocean. That is a strong archival judgment rather than an absolute certainty. The name belongs to the proposed four-ship support train.