^ That does sound like the one to watch, with the bays too it becomes a particularly nice case study for the future Royal Navy.
You are right about evolving the design, we could certainly modify a Canberra into a two island design
Thoughts on building a third such ship and having one in extended readiness
Initial thoughts is that sounds expensive and largely goes against the way most units are crewed, seems like it would cause some friction. I could also think of much better uses than building ships to sit empty, I could complete my fantasy fleet with 4 SSK's
There does appear to be great gains in efficiency on the QEC builds, I would like to see it quantified. It makes it a shame we're not building more.