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Not when it's a 14000-ton light carrier with limited freeboard expecting to spend a lot of time in the northern Atlantic. That elevator layout was chosen (apparently) for two criteria. One was to maximize availability in poor weather (hence the internal lift midships) and the other was to somewhat reduce enclosed volume as a cost measure (hence the notched elevator aft). That aft elevator is also well sheltered but allows transom access for an engine test stand, I believe.It seems to have worked acceptably for the Spanish, who built one as Principe de Asturias. Note that the original SCS layout did not have a ramp, as that idea hadn't even been tested in 1973-4, when SCS was being designed.
Not when it's a 14000-ton light carrier with limited freeboard expecting to spend a lot of time in the northern Atlantic. That elevator layout was chosen (apparently) for two criteria. One was to maximize availability in poor weather (hence the internal lift midships) and the other was to somewhat reduce enclosed volume as a cost measure (hence the notched elevator aft). That aft elevator is also well sheltered but allows transom access for an engine test stand, I believe.
It seems to have worked acceptably for the Spanish, who built one as Principe de Asturias.
Note that the original SCS layout did not have a ramp, as that idea hadn't even been tested in 1973-4, when SCS was being designed.
