Keeping the CVL's

Inspired by this thread, I went and had yet another of my whacky ideas, so...

Lets say that the UK cooks up a scheme post war that sets out to reduce the RN budget, but not as drastically as OTL reduce its size, by retaining some smaller carriers w/escorts post war. The plan is to place some ships into an "International, Pan-European Fleet" manned and maintained by the UK and other parties, and kept in full commission, until such time as the ships can be sold off (or scraped in X years), and while these ships are awaiting sale or scrapping, part of the WWII peace treaty requires that the defeated axis powers of Italy, Japan, and Germany each pay 40% of all costs related to keeping these ships in full commission. If other allied nations want in (Perhaps just to see if they may want to buy these ships for themselves), they pay 10% of the costs.

I know that I am not explaining this concept very well, so help refining the idea, and the explanation is most welcome.

Basically, the UK creates a legally binding agreement to reduce the RN post war just about as much as OTL, but includes a clause whereby smaller, less capable carriers can by placed into a separate force from the RN (but still with largely/wholly RN crews), that are offered up for sale to acceptable buyers, for X years after the war, and the Axis nations are forced to pay war reparations over and above OTL, to each individually, cover 40% of the upkeep for said ships. Thus, the UK gets to keep some additional ships post war, and in theory is actually making 20% profit from these ships while awaiting buyers. If other European nations choose to opt in, then their sailors would make up part of the crews, and the UK would get the double bonus of having to pay 10% less crew costs, as well as receiving the 10% additional payments of the total costs.

Would this work to keep the smaller carriers?
 
The only way that would be politically acceptable would be if use of this force was restricted to the Commonwealth.
 
The British Commonwealth might help with the costs. I am not sure they could get away with making the Axis nations to pay for the ships.
 
The only way that would be politically acceptable would be if use of this force was restricted to the Commonwealth.
I should have made that clear. The ships would remain under UK control at all times, but other nations that wanted firsthand experience with such ships, for either pre purchase, general experience, or to be able to build their own, could "buy into" providing crew components for the above contributions. Say there was allowed to be up to 4 nations 'slots', so that at any given time, there would always be a minimum RN crew component of at least 60%. Basically, the ships would serve the UK/commonwealth, but other nations that wanted to learn about carriers post war would be allowed to pay for the opportunity to do so, at a substantially lower cost than buying or building such a force.

The British Commonwealth might help with the costs. I am not sure they could get away with making the Axis nations to pay for the ships.
Possibly, but I don’t know either way, just another crazy ShadowMaster idea, lol.

How many of these carriers are we potentially talking about? And how many additional ships would be needed as escorts/replenishment vessels? If there are to be several carriers, and I don’t know just how many we might be talking about here so help me out with some possible ships that could be “disposed of” in this fashion rather than sold/scrapped.

If the number of such ships was fixed at the time of the treaty, would the UK be allowed to dispose of post war carriers, on a one for one basis, having sold or scrapped an existing CVL from this force?

If reparations in this form are indeed ok, could they be exacted over the same time period as the occupation of Berlin, IE 50 years?

So basically, for the 50 post war years (1945-1995), the UK gets the option to dispose of old carriers by selling them, scrapping them, or putting them up for sale (to an acceptable buyer) while retaining them in this force. And maybe a better name or nickname would be the reparations fleet?
 
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