Hi there,
Yesterday I finished watching the three part 'Britain's Biggest Warship' documentary on our new aircraft carrier. Well worth watching if you can find it on channels locally although I am a might biased being a navy brat (both my parents served) and seeing the ship twice a day as I cross Portsmouth Harbour on my commute.
You can find some basic details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrierI appreciate that although it might "Britain's biggest", our American friends are probably laughing in their boots compared to your carriers, but it didn't look too dwarfed when she met the USS George H.W. Bush in the third episode. And as was pointed out, she's much more modern. (But electrically powered, rather than nuclear powered).
There was a host of interesting/surprising facts which I probably should have made note of but some that stood out - she has a crew of just 700 thanks to "lean manning" and Amazon-like delivery systems for ammunition so that just 50 men/women can handle the weapons reloads instead the 500 I think they said that a US carrier would take. (Though a bit of me was asking the tv "yes, but what happens when it's damaged, or the ship's listing badly, or a lot of your crew are incapacitated" etc). There are some 5km of passageways and over 3000 spaces on board - for anyone who fancies doing deck plans!
One obvious difference is that she has two islands not one. One is a more standard bridge for the ship and the other air traffic control. But iirc both can be done from either island.
Of course, one snag at present is that she doesn't actually have any aircraft to her name as the F-35s she's eventually going to have don't come until the end of this year apparently. (Flight crews would add another 500+ to the crew figure above).
The Ob Travs wrote themselves as you watched the documentary, but very quickly a few things that come to mind that could be adapted: