Originally Posted by Biggus
...Some of the ships in your list were not RN, they operated under the Red Ensign but carried RN personnel to operate and maintain the aircraft.
Why should this discredit them as aircraft carriers? Anyway, you identify them and I'll check whether they appear in Colledge's definitive
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Here's the database I used:
I concede there may be the odd anomaly like Deer Sound but that still leaves a lot of carriers that weren't lost to enemy action over six years compared to those that were. Agreed?