I do hope I'm not making this up, but I'm sure I read somewhere that when they were looking for a replacement for the Mi Amigo that the guys trip to the port lead to absurd speculation that they could use the Ark Royal or they said something like if we could use that.
If Caroline had ever used it, although the costs running it would have required a very successful Dutch station and all of the combined income of the God squad in the US to contribute. Supplying would have been a little easier as they could have landed some aircraft from Spain . Although they'd probably would have had an even bigger aerial on the deck