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For a battleship still to have workmen working on her main armament at the time of a major engagement rather shows up your "argument".

Re. comparative working up times, this depends on lots of things [commentary redacted WJJ] . I would suggest some more research.

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So you don't know the reasons so will make one up !

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paul.mercer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:36 am .

.... As I posted before, the failures of the 14" at North Cape as reported in Tarrants book, would suggest that the problems were ongoing ........

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. ...... I will avoid to participate in a discussion that seems to revolve about my decision not to spread what I have signed and/or I have been asked not to spread . ........ [/color] It does not matter what you have been "asked", the rules of (and condition for use of) the Archive is th...

@Gollin you ave received all the information that you required to understand that this is not for you to see. ..... . NO, Using the archive means that according to the rules that you must give a full reference. In your words, you are "required" to give the reference number. The reference ...

Hello everybody, pgollin wrote: "when people ask for the reference they are merely asking you to obey the rules" [/color] . ...but people asking to break the same rules I have signed are not entitled to preach to others.... I do hope this is the end of the petulant requests of "refer...

Thanks for the clarification! Another question if I may? The interlocks. Where they part of the flash protection system ? [/color] Yes, and other things . Most of the flash system was passive "fail-safe", i.e. connections between compartments were only ever open one way at any particular ...

Wouldn't guns be "proofed" ashore? As an aside... Were POW's turrets assembled in a gun pit first? My understanding was that the entire assembly including the guns was assembled ashore in a gun pit, tested, disassembled, and then rebuilt in the accepting vessel? If they were, was it the c...

Hi Phil, I have no doubt at all that PoW's guns were proof tested. Do you happen to know that date upon which the 10 x 6EFC portion of the test was performed? B Unfortunately not. All 20 guns were measured for wear in June/Early July. I looked at the gun logs in the days before digital cameras were...

. Alberto, your post misinterprets the facts. The Churchill Archive (and TNA:PRO) Copyright and restrictions on reproduction ; a: Does not any publishing of file references. b: Is meant to stop what you have done here, i.e. posting images from the files - so you are breaking the rule you want to hid...

By "proofing trial", I am referring to an official test of the guns to meet a stipulated contractual requirement. As mentioned, just suggested as a possibility due to a passing similarity to an earlier gun proofing trial mentioned by Ian Buxton in "Battleship Builders". Nothing ...

...... Mr.Barben accounts for a night and dawn shoot " to his boss. Mr.Wilkinson, who had just left PoW after the extensive trials run with the Admiralty representatives onboard, that he himself accounts for at page 10 of the report (as you may notice on the right top of the page, this is page...

. ....... I hope it's clear for everybody (even for the most insisting ones...) that I will not provide any further info about the content nor the location of the "Vickers" report and of the Admiralty trials details report. ..... [/color] . In which case you are breaking the conditions of...

... (this applies in special mode to Mr.pgollin, (http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8523&p=82981#p82976) repeated requests, of course...) ..... 1: So you will not clarify which of your claims (the letter came from the Cambridge archive AND from Kew) is actually correct ? 2:...

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Alberto,

Please would you answer my questions re. the report and interlocks,

Thanks.

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