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Bold of you to assume that Tawain wouldn't blow the plants to deny them to the enemy

China does have a limited window before all the anti shipping missiles and torpedoes we sold Tawain actually get delivered. Once they are in place the effort required to take the place will be a lot higher

It would have to be a Essex since nothing since them has fit in the canal for one reason or the other(albeit FDR and Coral Sea could fit in the new set of locks provided they were still around)

Probably either a Tarawa or Wasp since they fit even in the old locks. Or a modernized Essex. And no the Forrestals and Kitty Hawks wouldn't fit even in the new locks for the same reason as the CVNs

Also I discovered something a few minutes ago weirdly enough the CVN's don't hold the record for the carrier with the most freeboard that goes to HMS Ark Royal of crippling the Bismarck fame

Nope they'd need at least a couple more decks worth of freeboard to pull that off

Actually I just checked out the two classes dimensions. Other than the Fords having a bit more draft they're identical

No CVNs or for that Super Carriers can fit through the Panama Canal even with the new locks, they're too fat on the flight deck for that. And the Ford's aren't much bigger than the Nimitz class in terms of dimensions.

Bremerton has several drydocks capable of holding a CVN and Pearl Harbor has one. And we have extra several slips that could build them assuming the yards in question were willing to spend the dough to become nuclear construction capable. Plus we build carriers significantly slower than we...

To be fair with communication times being what they were in 1812 we kinda declared war when the British as far as Congress knew weren't exactly negotiating in good faith

And a war with Spain, and the War of 1812 was mostly related to the UK bullying us at sea, the Quasi War with France, the Barbary War, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident caused the massive upscaling of the US intervention in Vietnam. We've had more wars start because of stuff happening to our ships...

Of course if any of those nations suddenly become hostile to the US for some reason that might be problematic but Ah well that's unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future