• during the Second World War. CVA-01 and CVA-02 were intended to replace HMS Victorious and HMS Ark Royal, while CVA-03 and CVA-04 would have replaced HMS Hermes...
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    Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Fate CVA-01 (possible name HMS Queen Elizabeth) 50 54,500 long tons (55,375 t) 3 x shafts Parsons turbines 6 boilers...
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    assumed two carriers, CVA-01 and Hermes operating 400 nautical miles off the southern coast of Java, would have 31 Buccaneers (24 for CVA-01 and 7 for Hermes)...
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    intended as a complement to the much larger CVA-01-class fleet aircraft carrier. The cancellation of CVA-01 in 1966 meant that the smaller cruiser would...
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    destroyers to escort the CVA-01 aircraft carriers projected to come into service in the early 1970s but the rest of the class and the CVA-01 carriers were cancelled...
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  • 1948 HMS Queen Elizabeth was to have been the first of the 1960s planned CVA-01-class aircraft carriers, but the class was never constructed HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)...
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    warships were planned to provide area air-defence for the four planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. They would also have been able to operate independently...
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  • II light cruiser, designed and built to escort the Royal Navy's aborted CVA-01 class of fleet aircraft carrier. She was equipped with flag facilities for...
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    introduction of a new, purpose built AEW platform for use on the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. Neither the new aircraft carriers nor the new AEW aircraft...
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    1943, not laid down, cancelled 1945 Malta New Zealand Gibraltar Africa CVA-01 – cancelled 1966 Initial four ships planned, reduced to two (likely to have...
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