When the US president mocked HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, he missed the point entirely. Having spent years embedded on Britain’s flagship, in this personal account, Chris Terrill explains why the Royal Navy’s carriers are built for modern warfare, and why bigger isn’t always better at sea M y father, a Fleet Air Arm pilot in the Second World War, was fond of telling me of the time a passing American warship sent a Morse code message by flashlight to a Royal Navy convoy in the