" The (1942 design) light fleet carriers served with lots of smaller navies after WW2 as well as the RN.

...I saw Magnificent in 1964...(and earlier) in 1963...(and both times) I took a couple of photos with the worlds worst camera(s)...'120' size Kodak(s...whose) old B/W photos are rubbish...simply not in focus...and you shouldn't waste your time trying to make (them any) better!

[Editor's Note: That's all the challenge I need to hear, Jeff! So here we go - note enhanced/enlarged insets, at top]:


Click on Image to Enlarge(Here she was in '64) waiting to be scrapped, moored off Plymouth, where I now live...It frustrates me still that I didn't have a decent camera then - I have no idea of the identity of all of those ex-WW2 destroyers also laid up. The next time I was able to visit, they had all gone.

(And here is the one I took of her in 1963):


It gives the impression these ships were a long, long way off - they were not. A decent camera with a zoom would have put them next to me! That's the monitor HMS 'Roberts' in a small group of ships at the RHS - 15" guns! That too had gone when I returned with a decent camera - I could still weep now!! I think I scanned this at a high resolution to get the best image I could...

(Anyway) I took...photos with the worlds worst camera - but at least I saw her, the last one in the RN.

Cheers

-Jeff"