In ww1 the Frobisher class cruiser Vindictive (cant remember origional name) was completed as a carrier with seperate landing & flying of decks but like Furious was unsuccesful. She was later converted back into a cruiser. The Washington Treaty exempted existing carriers as experimental, and defined an aircraft carrier as as ship designed solely for operating aircraft and in excess of 10,000 tons. Vindictive already existed and was just under the weight limit. Had she been given a full conversion giving the RN a fast carrier not covered by the treaty would she have been worth keeping in that role? What role in the fleet whould she have best served? Scout for destroyers - light cruiser? Escort leader. support for fleet carriers, or something else? Assuming she wasn't reconverted in the run up to ww11 with the naval treaties expired would she have provided enough justification to conver the other Frobishers and if so what difference would their presance make to RN operations.

