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Well, Hornet, Wasp, Enterprise are cool and agresive names. As I said Ticconderoga, Lexinton, Gettysburg, Nimitz are cool names too. The problem with American ship names are those John Stennis, Leahy, Vinson, etc. that are like those Antonio Bonomi signaled from the Italian ones. I still think that ...

The Z plan was, in few words, awesome. But in this topic there has to be some History Learning for the Germans. What I´m going to say is hard (very, very hard) for a Battleship and Battlecruiser lover as myself. :( Let´s see. 1. In WWI the U Boat flotilla accomplished a lot more and were more a thre...

Thanks George! About Miyamoto Musashi, as I wrote before, I was aware that he was a great samurai and poet who wrote a book called the "Book of the Five Rings", but I wasn´t aware that his name was after a province. And Yamato is a more important name than I thought before, it is almost my...

Well, names in a foreign language always sound "cool". My native language is spanish and when I hear a ship called "Santísima Trinidad" or "San Juan" I don´t relate that name with a combat vessel but with the neighborhood or church next to mine (Remember a US sub that i...

I´m studying now that Germany produced a whole fleet of dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers and destroyers between 1905 to 1914, enough to be called and operate as the High Seas Fleet (König, Groser Kurfurst; Seydlitz... etc.). That was made in only nine years. But between 1933 and 194...

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Is there a good one? Perhaps a 1:350 one?

A question here: about the main deck´s armour. Those decks were made of wood, so, the armour was built inmediatly beneath it? Was the wooden deck like a "carpet" above a steel armour?

But, in conclusion can we say that the French Navy was negligible from a relevant maritime point of view in WWI and WWII?
The fighting was, as all the XXth Century, British (and her Commonwealth), American, Japanese and German. Well, and Russian as far as Tsushima goes.

For me this year is out of the question, too many things to do and too little time, that´s why I proposed to do it next year. But I believe that NYC is a wonderfull idea.
Let´s see what happens next.

Hi! Yes, my original idea was to do it Convention Style. If it is so then it can be at Italy, Germany, New York, anywhere where there is an hotel with a convention center. I´ll hope that people from this forum and other dreadnought and naval ones can assemble but with the Bismarck as the focus point...

Excellent!
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