Queen Elizabeth: mined and disabled in Alexandria harbour along with her sister ship Valiant while Prince Of Wales was lucky to escape intact from her encounter with the Bismarck and was eventually sunk by the Japanese off Singapore before she was a year old. Iconic maybe, but for the wrong reasons. My vote for names would have gone to Eagle and Formidable, with Glorious, Majestic, Furious, Hermes, Leviathan, Audacious and Powerful following close behind. Any speculation on their pennant numbers? I'm going with R08 and R09...
not entirely fair QE was the flag at the Dardanelles and was scraped at the end of WW2 and was the pinnical of pre world war one battleships and they were considered the 1st fast battle ships built
and PoW was also the most advanced battleships built being the KGV class it had the heaviest armor on any battleship bar Yamamoto and interestingly both the PoW of 1902 and QE both operated in the Dardanelles.
you could argue HMS Invincible is a bad name since the previous ship blew up in Jutland hell it had about 3 collisions and 2 of them were before it had been commissioned. and by naming the the new carriers after battleships is great use of powerful names
the naming of the WW2 carriers are name with a lesser importance compared with the BBs
the Eagle and Formidable, with Glorious, Majestic, Furious, Hermes, Leviathan, Audacious and Powerful all lack a royal link which the battleships had during WW2 and the CVF is reafuriming it all though those are brilliant names.
Audacious is used in in the 4th Astute
