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The design was revised for the later Cs , moving the bridge aft and the second 6inch forward to superfire over A . These form the class converted to AA cruisers for WW2 . The D class was lengthened and got an extra 6 inch mount in . A forerunner , HMS Caroline , is still afloat as the RNVR Drillship...

He was using the British casual use of "nice" by which we mean something very different . Bl******g Grim is what he means . I heard that there were a lot of Maltese sailors , serving as R N sailors , aboard when Barham was sunk . Another example ( like "the Sullivans" ) why you s...

At 15 tons , that thing is only 50% bigger/heavier than the WW2 British Grand Slam ( 10 tons ), big sister to Tallboy ( 6 tons ), and both designed ( originally ) to do the same thing , bunker-busting . Clap an advanced guidance system ( Like Paveway ) onto the nose of either of those to "fly&q...

In German usage their battlecruisers were categorised as Grosse Kreuzer , which can have no other interpretation than that they were viewed by the German Admiralty as a continuous line of progressive development of the "heavy" cruiser type , getting bigger and with heavier armament in suc...

In German usage their battlecruisers were categorised as Grosse Kreuzer , which can have no other interpretation than that they were viewed by the German Admiralty as a continuous line of progressive development of the "heavy" cruiser type , getting bigger and with heavier armament in succ...

yes R F , I liked that one too . There is another , which uses the Vulkan captain's son , I think as a U-boat skipper , set in WW2 , But I cant remember the plot of that one . And another which took the little China gunboat " Robin " as the ship type for the book , and pitched it up agains...

Why are there no devastating plagues going in the opposite direction ? ie , back home to Europe . There are enough Very Nasty Things in central America by way of diseases , parasites , etc , that you wouldn't want to be near , even today . With the exception of Malaria , most probably brought in hum...

Yes . My point is that , exactly .

Relax people , we are really not that sensitive ! As everyone in Britain knows , the peacetime role of our Navy is to provide jobs for the male members of the Royal Family , and husbands for the females . Besides , if we are discusing the R N building a couple of "white elephants" , then w...

The other choices would be France , USA , or Italy , but these were viewed at the time as very much in the second rank of builders , not so much on the quality of the ships they could produce , rather than the capacity in terms of the number of shipyards capable of building you a dreadnought battles...

A further thought has occurred . As mentioned above , we've all seen countless post-disaster survivalist Films and TV series , and I wonder If , as a result we are not now actually "rehearsed" in what to do in these situations . There also seems to be a spread of Survivalist documentary an...

I think that is fair comment . But with regard to the Black Death , the societal structures remained in place , ie the King , nobility , priesthood , etc were all still there , and though medicinal knowledge was primitive , the plague was generally recognised as a plain case of disease , and was the...

Kids today , huh .... ?

They want this , they want that . They want a good Slap ! ! ! :-)

There are bits of film from at least two major Mediteranean Convoy battles in there . Operation Pedestal , the " last ditch " effort to get a convoy through from the West , with an exceptionally heavy naval escort , including Nelson and Rodney , the carriers Victorious , Indomitable , Furi...

You also have to bear in mind that the communities of natives , both when considered in the context of individual villages , or as whole peoples such as the Aztecs , were pretty dependent on a constant schedule of agricultural work to keep up the food supply . Much of their astronomical knowledge wa...