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Hi HMSVF,
Highly likely. I met one of the authors on the Battleship vs Battleship Forum.

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An important new piece of scholarship on Coronel is due to be published within the next year or so.

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The clinical definition is “digital dyslexia” ...

Byron

Read the entire JSTor article referenced, Sean, and do the math for yourself - it was a “loan” in name only: two million pounds loaned and three million pounds in direct subsidy was an unprecedented deal implemented at a time when the naval budget was approaching a crisis level. I hardly imagine thi...

A brief of the details of the Cunard subsidy program of 1902, passed under the Balfour government can be found by searching "British government subsidies to Cunard Line 1902 (The paper is freely D/L from JStor). In short - The British government loaned Cunard approximately two million pounds sterlin...

Been ill. The logic underlying the "dreadnought armoured cruiser" as a solution to the German high-speed transatlantic raid threat was that the government was spending stupendous amounts in subsidy payments to the commercial owners of the huge new British transatlantic liners in order to have use of...

>>>>> Please note - “Battlecruiser Invincible: The History of the First Battlecruiser, 1909-1916”, V E Tarrant (page 15). “British Battleships of World War One”, R A Burt (page 39). If I have counted correctly, Tarrant and Burt now make six sources referring specifically to the threat to imperial co...

Wadinga wrote - I very much appreciate any influence you may have had in making Mr Seligmann's (Matthew's) paper available. It is a fascinating read and it is interesting to see that the controversy about the origin of the battlecruiser concept is only a fraction of a much bigger dispute between him...

Hi Byron, Speaking of Beelzebub and his location amongst the details, I unaccountably overlooked the most pithy and direct dismissal of the "AMC assertion" in Roberts' book. In the headpiece to his "Origins" chapter he actually quotes the Bacon assertion but continues beyond "fight any cruiser aflo...

Sean,
Matthew has been kind enough to provide open access to his article. You may D/L it here -
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... 15.1034576

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These record runs were achieved on normal passages. The Blue Riband record speeds mentioned were not very far off at all from typical passage times, just the best to date. Go here for a good resource - https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/trans-atlantic_passenger_ships__past_a...

Sean, While it is true that both the German liners and their erstwhile pursuers were powered by reciprocating engines, Seligmann goes on explain the factors that made the liners decisively superior in terms of overall practical sea speed - “The relative excess of speed of the German vessels compared...

Despite his rather superficial and inaccurate (see chapter VIII, Frost) review, it appears that Mr Prescott nevertheless gave Frost's work four stars. The nub of the problem here is the assumption that Frost's criticisms must unquestionably derive from simple anglophobia. I very much doubt that to h...

Sean,
I have all the references you have mentioned. Contact Professor Seligmann (he lists his Brunel email on-line); ask if he would be kind enough to email you a PDF of his afore-mentioned essay.

Byron

Sean, The following passages are extracted from "The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet", written by his personal friend, professional colleague and charter member of the "Fish Pond" advisory committee, Admiral Sir Roger H. Bacon. Volume 1, page 255 - " The Invincible had a tot...