A new Ark Royal ?

[AndyG]

Changing names of aricraft carriers was very fashionable back in the 1940-1950's:

HMS Eagle was originally laid down as Audacious
HMS Ark Royal (as was mentioned above) was Irrestible - still is, in many ways!!!
HMS Hermes was Elephant (the 'original' Hermes having been cancelled)

Oh, and there was a Leander-class frigate, HMS Phoebe, 'renamed' HMS Hero for the BBC TV series "Warship" - apparently it caused the Soviet intelligence services not a little confusion, as they couldn't understand how the Royal Navy had a frigate they hadn't seen before.

[DarrenL]

Oh, and there was a Leander-class frigate, HMS Phoebe, 'renamed' HMS Hero for the BBC TV series "Warship" - apparently it caused the Soviet intelligence services not a little confusion, as they couldn't understand how the Royal Navy had a frigate they hadn't seen before.

We could have loads of QE Carriers then.

Queen Elizabeth, rename it to Prince of Wales after 12 months, then rename to Ark Royal after another 12 months etc... do it on a rotation basis, after 6 years it's back to Queen Elizabeth. Just change the name plates and numbers each time.

Although we have been doing the same thing with our [REDACTED] for the last [REDACTED] years, we really only have [REDACTED].

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