When the Royal Navy Needed Numbers

An interesting story of the Atlantic Conveyor, used by the British in the Falklands War to move Harriers to the war zone. While not operating as a mini-carrier itself (although one plane was kept ready to intercept any Argentine recon aircraft venturing far out to sea), the story shows how containers were used for housing the support services needed to keep the ship operational.

I didn't realize she was a hybrid container ship, which is what I wrote about here as a means of getting numbers for our Navy in an emergency or to stretch our naval resources for peacetime engagement or humanitarian missions that just don't need our increasingly scarce high-end ships. Atlantic Conveyor should have been an example in my article of a Modularized Auxiliary Cruiser.