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Well, "new". All of those "new" carriers had been laid down during the Second World War and then spent a decade or more sitting on the stocks. The fact that they already existed was a significant boon to getting them completed, because it would cost less and take less time than designing and building an entirely new bespoke design, and, well, they existed. Tangibly. As for rebuilds, well, one of them was a boondoggle everyone agrees should have been scaled way back if not cancelled entirely and the other nonetheless proved faster and cheaper than a new carrier.Speaking to your scenario in particular, the problem is Korea. Korea opened the purse strings - and then sent all that money into mobilization for Korea, leaving not a whole lot for a big-ticket capital project like an aircraft carrier. It's worth noting that both the restart of Victorious' rebuild and the restart of Hermes' construction both had to wait until after Korea.
Well, "new". All of those "new" carriers had been laid down during the Second World War and then spent a decade or more sitting on the stocks. The fact that they already existed was a significant boon to getting them completed, because it would cost less and take less time than designing and building an entirely new bespoke design, and, well, they existed. Tangibly.
As for rebuilds, well, one of them was a boondoggle everyone agrees should have been scaled way back if not cancelled entirely and the other nonetheless proved faster and cheaper than a new carrier.
Speaking to your scenario in particular, the problem is Korea. Korea opened the purse strings - and then sent all that money into mobilization for Korea, leaving not a whole lot for a big-ticket capital project like an aircraft carrier. It's worth noting that both the restart of Victorious' rebuild and the restart of Hermes' construction both had to wait until after Korea.
