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Britain Once Tried To Built an Aircraft Carrier From a Container Ship The Royal Navy in 1982 faced a galling problem as it prepared to take back the Falkland Islands: not enough aircraft carriers. Here s What You Need to Know: Just as early U.S. and British escort carriers during World War II were converted from civilian ships, the Conveyor was to be converted into impromptu aircraft carriers. The Royal Navy in 1982 faced a galling problem as it prepared to take back the Falkland Islands from Argentinian forces that had seized it that March: not enough aircraft carriers. These were needed to launch air strikes on Argentinian forces on the islands, to deploy helicopters to patrol for Argentinian submarines and land troops and supplies, and launch jets to intercept attack by the Argentinian land-based fighters certain to swarm the British task force.

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