[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

"It wouldn't be prudent for her to go off with the chance of the unit breaking down while she was in warmer climates and then engineers would have to be flown out to her to fix it."

>>You have got to be friggen kidding me are their any machinist mates on board? Its got aircraft to bring in spare parts if not on board.

Yep, much easier to reroute a carrier and her crew then inconvenience a couple of engineers by flying them out.

[Rikstir]

I dont know if you have any grasp of geography, but with the ship just off the South East coast of the UK, returning to harbour in Portsmouth isnt exactly a stretch.