We loaded the Royal Navy to the gills with our supply ships as they transitted south. A nearly continual underway replenishment of weapons from war reserves.
Today, Obama would nuke the British fleet (if there was one).
If there is a new conflict, President Romney (I am getting to like the sound of that) should loan them a carrier, like the old USS Kitty Hawk, and some planes too. Maybe a cruiser or two as well.