BRITISH CARRIERS TO BE LAID UP
MANNING DIFFICULTIES . LONDON. January 12. All of Britain’s six fast fleet aircraftcarriers .will be laid up in reserve because of the manning position,” says the naval correspondent of the “Sunday Times.” Royal Navy’s air operations wilt then be left to six light carriers which were conceived in a great emergency during the war with the idea of converting them to passenger liners when the war was over. This idea has now been abandoned. “The Indefatigable and the Indomitable, of the fast carriers, are already S Victorious and Formidable will follow them when they return from their last trooping tnps on January 14 and February 3 respectively. The Implacable is now having a brief respite in the Home Fleet, and the Illustrious Is acting as a trials carrier.
< ."Afll the f?st carriers were completdunhg the war. They carry 1600 to 2000 men and 60 to 70 aircraft. They expensive to maintain and difficult to qyuj/’
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25082, 14 January 1947, Page 8
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