fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
How about this, Illustrious was under repair at Norfolk Navy Yard for eleven months after her adventures in the Mediterranean. Eleven months. And is there a guess on how long the average USN CV spent in the yard after being hit by a bomb(s) or Kamikaze(s)? Looks like about 52 days on average, slightly less than 2 months and that includes almost a year for USS Franklin.
I am not sure that is a fair comparison all Royal Navy ships that were repaired in US yards seem to have taken a long time. After all the dockyard was working on an unfamiliar ship with completely different equipment. Even things like thread sizes, pipe fittings and electrical fittings would have been different plus I bet a lot of that 11 months was waiting for parts to come across the Atlantic.