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The RN looked at double reduction gearing and wasn't impressed - at that time the efficiency savings weren't great and the costs and maintenance increase weren't thought to be worth it. Post-war reports basically stated the same with the big regret being lack of reliable high pressure boilers.

.... Therefore, if you and some others " fellow contributors " consider the exercise "futile", just don't come in this thread and stay in your "indeterminateness". That's it. Who is playing tricks here, to avoid evident answers in a clear rules game is quite clear. ......

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Very good, and extra marks for the Simon and Garfunkel quote.

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Herr Nilsson wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 6:33 am #3 I'm undecided, therefore I would like to abstain from voting.

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Same for me I'm afraid.

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. .... As closing statements re the topic: We have already provided on this forum all the data and figures needed to prove that PoW guns, with all their problems, were fired in an " excellent " way ...... . . Unfortunately you have not provided all the data - you are deliberately withhold...

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As an approximation of unknown accuracy - YES

As an exact, objective measure - NO

As a relative measure - then it depends upon which others you measure.

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. For a well run engineering department the normal funnel smake should vary between a light haze to dispersed light grey smoke. If a ship is hard worked (e.g. working up speed quickly) or has poorly balanced air supply then the smoke would be black and seem more voluminous. Any oil fired ship could ...

. A minor linguistic point. Guns ordered to be fired would ONLY be those actually ready, not the number bearing. The firing officer would have gun ready lights for those guns "ready" (loaded and bearing). Guns that were awaiting completion of the firing cycle or which were casualties would...

. Again I would point out that IF we are trying to get a "rate of fire" rather than just number of rounds fired over a period, then the first rounds should be ignored. With the first rounds the guns have been been loaded and aimed, only after those first rounds have been fired can the firi...

......... P 8 of 14 National Archives document "Copyright and Related Rights 2013 rev http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/copyright-related-rights.pdf non-commercial research - this might include research for a non-commercial publication (one which will not make...

Fellow Contributors, Here are two documents recently located at NA, Kew. Both are Crown Copyright. The documents are made available under the Open Government licence. These images were not made by the NA and are not subject to their image reproduction policy. ....... [/color] . As was demonstrated ...

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I have had an e-mail from the UK publishers (Pen and Sword) stating that this book has now been released.

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Battles ... ck/p/16351


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Well done Alberto for again demonstrating why your logic/arguments are so easily dismissed.

Please re-read your post and try to understand the failure.

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Alberto,

It is no good you trying to take some sort of moral high ground when you have consistently broken your commitment (given when accessing the document) to give the title and archive reference of the "Vickers report".

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. I live in the UK, of my two brothers one went to live in the USA when he was 26, and the other to live in Australia when he was 24 (was it something I said ??? ) The VERY few times we have met up since then has revealed very different memories of "interesting" childhood events, probably ...