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While there are sources out there that have Vic's waterline length increasing by 30 ft, so suggesting she was cut in half and stretched, those same sources claim her length between the perpendiculars did not change.

The truth is she was not cut in half and lengthened. Friedman still has her waterline length post modernisation at 710ft, same as it was when first completed. The increase in length comes from rebuilding the bow above the waterline and increasing the length of the flight deck with overhangs. The increase in beam was achieved by bulging the hull.

Never read of fire damage to the boilers in any of my multiple sources.

Hobbs in a Warship 2020 article on her reconstruction says this

"The work carried out between 1950 and 1958 to build a new Victorious should, therefore, be thought of as a series of modernisations that took place within a prolonged, overall building process. Some of them required work that had already been completed to be dismantled before the new equipment and structure could be fitted".

The most famous of these is of course the boiler saga.

<blockquote data-quote="EwenS" data-source="post: 534814" data-attributes="member: 4253">While there are sources out there that have Vic's waterline length increasing by 30 ft, so suggesting she was cut in half and stretched, those same sources claim her length between the perpendiculars did not change. The truth is she was not cut in half and lengthened. Friedman still has her waterline length post modernisation at 710ft, same as it was when first completed. The increase in length comes from rebuilding the bow above the waterline and increasing the length of the flight deck with overhangs. The increase in beam was achieved by bulging the hull.Never read of fire damage to the boilers in any of my multiple sources. Hobbs in a Warship 2020 article on her reconstruction says this&quot;The work carried out between 1950 and 1958 to build a new Victorious should, therefore, be thought of as a series of modernisations that took place within a prolonged, overall building process. Some of them required work that had already been completed to be dismantled before the new equipment and structure could be fitted&quot;.The most famous of these is of course the boiler saga.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EwenS, post: 534814, member: 4253"] While there are sources out there that have Vic's waterline length increasing by 30 ft, so suggesting she was cut in half and stretched, those same sources claim her length between the perpendiculars did not change. The truth is she was not cut in half and lengthened. Friedman still has her waterline length post modernisation at 710ft, same as it was when first completed. The increase in length comes from rebuilding the bow above the waterline and increasing the length of the flight deck with overhangs. The increase in beam was achieved by bulging the hull. Never read of fire damage to the boilers in any of my multiple sources. Hobbs in a Warship 2020 article on her reconstruction says this "[I]The work carried out between 1950 and 1958 to build a new Victorious should, therefore, be thought of as a series of modernisations that took place within a prolonged, overall building process. Some of them required work that had already been completed to be dismantled before the new equipment and structure could be fitted".[/I] The most famous of these is of course the boiler saga. [/QUOTE]

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