Yeah in my JROTC class back in high school we had an old school Master Chief who served from the 50s through the early 80s then when on teach JROTC for another 20 years. He more less didn't care at that point and we watched a fair number of movies by the time I got into my HS' JROTC program in 1999. The officer who was the senior instructor in the program was more worried about his ongoing divorce and sleeping with one of the parents of a senior cadet than the program itself. It wasn't till the third year in that program where we got a pair of new instructors that we opened a text book. Prior to that it was mostly bullshit easy class. By that point I was a Color Cadet 1st Class without so much as ever having taken a written test.
Sad times,HMS Bristol was decommissioned today and is listed for disposal although there are efforts ongoing to save her
Sadly I doubt those efforts will come to anything tbh. Is she the last that went South to the Falklands still in RN service?
Maybe a couple of the Hunts sent to sweep mines are left but other than that nope
Reminds me of a story I read in Arch Whitehouse's SUBS AND SUBMARINERS. New sub under construction (1930's IIRC), her future captain is inspecting her. Finds some pinholes in the conning tower sheeting and points this out to the yard foreman. Is told "Don't worry about it, when we're done painting her them holes won't show."
What film was that? I remember watching it but can't remember the name.
The film was called Operation Petticoat.
People can probably guess who the director was given he did other pink themed stuff.
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Does the Hood's sisters get built?
Some of those names may be reused (Anson and Howe).
The N3s seem to be referred to as the UK's patron saints in some sources (more modern than the battleships). So St George, St Patrick, St David, St Andrew. I'm not sure that is a serious suggestion from the time or something historians use sometimes.
You might get HMS Beaty and Jellicoe if someone is very happy with ww1 admirals.
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Given OTL events, I wonder if the RN might shy away from using HMS St Patrick if the majority of Ireland is in open revolt or has left to be the Free State by that point?
I believe the RN was already inching towards cancelling the Hood's sisters even at that stage, but I could be wrong. I dont think the ships would have received saint names had they entered service, but I dont really know how serious a suggestion that was either so I could be very wrong there.
I've seen them mentioned a good few times as potential names but I usually consider it something a historian a few years after suggested and it's sort of stuck.
Most ships are also given suggested names early in their design phase. Sometimes the names stick, and sometimes not. The trouble is that if those saint names were suggested early in their design phase we dont know how seriously they were considered, but its the best we have.
Hood's sisters had already been scrapped by the time the Washington treaty was proposed. For some reason the RN had lost faith in Battlecruisers designed before Jutland.
After WWI HMS Lion is transferred to the Royal Australian Navy as a replacement for the obsolete HMAS Australia. HMS Canada is transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy to serve as flagship.
I think HMS Princess Royal would have been a better fit for Canada, battlecruisers are much better units to protect against enemy cruisers and commerce raiders that threaten the commerce of the commonwealth nations.
I really can't see Canada operating a BB or BC in peacetime, and if they can, they won't operate much else.