The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.

No one can pretend for a moment that in point of spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound. Every one who confronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers, seems to have acknowledged his superior power. Yet from the point of view of his nervous constitution, Fox was a psychopath or détraqué of the deepest dye.

I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.

Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.