heres my work so far the carrier is now Nuclear here her background has been refined.
During the Faulkands war it became apparent to the admiralty how important fixed wing carriers were, the new invincible class carriers entering service were fine for North Atlantic ASW duty's but proved lacking when it came to bigger operations, the older larger Centaur class carrier Hermes however proved more viable, holding greater numbers of aircraft.
The admiralty following the Faulklands war drew up plans to resolve the matter HMS Hermes was now 30+ years old and her design was from the WW2. working on the design of the Modified Centaur Hermes a new ship was designed the Centaur II, Nuclear powered and although a STOVL carrier was designed to be coverted at relativly low cost to CATOBAR, hence she was designed with an Angled deck (albeit with a peice missing to allow for her landing craft as she was to be not only a strike carrier but a Commando carrier and and ASW carrier) and provision under her ski jump for 2 CATS.
Lessons from the Faulklands would also see a new level of protection with Phalanx CIWS, Sea wolf and 20mm guns, together with escorts she would be well protected, the armour design of the WW2 error Centaur was reduced to save weight which allowed other systems to be fitted without disturbing the designs good sea keeping.
She would be capable of operating upto 28 Harriers and upto 10 Seaking Helecopters. with a length of 236m, draught of 8.5m, Beam of 45.1m and a maximum displacement of 28,000tonns and a top speed of 28knots. her compliment would be 1,700 with berthing for upto 850 troops. Powered bt 4 Rolls Royce PWR1 Reactors delivering 88Kshp through 4 GEC Steam Turbines two per shaft and 4 WH Allen Turbo Generators of 3.2MW each.
Designed in 1983 the first steel was cut in 1985 and HMS Centaur was lanched in 1990 entering commision in 1991, followed a year latter by Albion and Bulwark in 1992 with Hermes the fourth and final in 1994. this allowed the RN to sell the Original HMS Hermes in 1985 when HMS Illustrious the second Invincilbe class carrier was commisioned as an interim Carrier along side HMS Invicible both would be sold to Austrailia when Albion and Bulwark were Launched, HMS Ark Royal the third Invincible was sold to Canada in 1984 partially complete.
Heres Hermes the fourth ship in 2012....