HMS Ice Carrier
The HMS Habbakuk would have been made an ice material or 'pykrete'. A mixture of 86% ice and 14% sawdust, making it far easier to produce in large quantities than steel. The pykrete melts slower than actual and it more durable. The pykrete could be repaired while at sea using the same water the vessel floated in.
It's mammoth size would allow it to carry upwards of 200 fighter planes or half that in bombers, and it'd have a crew complement of 3,700, all told. Compare that to a Nimitz-class supercarrier, today's largest and operated by the U.S. Navy: 1,092 feet long, 252 wide and weighing in at 100,000 tons, they typically carry around 90 aircraft or more and over 3,000 sailors.
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