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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 3656803" data-attributes="member: 17858">Algunos parrafos del libro de Hobbs (British Aircraft Carrier):At first they took the view that all six ships should be rebuilt in the order Formidable, Victorious, Indomitable, Illustrious, Implacable and Indefatigable, but noted that some had a considerable number of unrectified defects that would complicate their reconstruction.Detailed work on the design, which would involve dismantling the hull down to hangar-deck level and the construction of a ‘new’ ship on top of the old lower hull, began in February 1948. It was not completed until June 1950, by which time a full survey of both ships [Formidable, Victorious] had been carried out and revealed that Formidable had a distorted flight deck, propeller shaft defects and a considerable amount of internal structure that had been damaged by kamikaze hits in 1945 but only hastily repaired or patched over. Since March 1947 she had been laid up in unmaintained reserve, and her hull was found to have deteriorated significantly as a consequence. In 1950 it was decided, therefore, to modernise Victorious first. She had been running as a training ship until recently and her hull was in a far better shape.Unfortunately the hangar and gallery deck structure, together with the new armoured flight deck, had just been completed when it was decided that reboilering was essential, and a hole large enough to get the old boilers out and new ones in, with their associated auxiliary machinery, had to be cut and then filled. Had the requirement been highlighted earlier, the work could have been done when the ship was originally stripped down, with a considerable saving in time and expense.The cost of the modernisation rose dramatically as more layers of work were continually added to the original package. Before work started the estimate was £5.4 million; it rose to £7.7 million once work had started and the Dockyard had more reliable data on which to base calculations. By March 1952 the figure was £11 million, and after reboilering and new radar were factored in this had risen to £14.16 million. The final figure in 1958, when work was complete, was a little over £30 million.</blockquote>

Verificación: Libertador de Argentina