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The battlecruiser is a fascinating warship and one of my favourite topics. It is also completely maligned for no other reason than that British gunners were careless with their cordite charges in the attempt to increase their own rate of fire. As pointed out, the battlecruiser is simply the...

You mean the Anglo-Japanese Treaty.

The ships of the 'lend-use act' are not at all the same. You should look at other examples of the 19th century, such the 'Alabama Claims' of 1869. If Britain declared itself neutral in the conflict than selling warships to a foreign power is a breach of neutrality. Any warships would be...

I've been wondering why the provision of any formal aid, especially of the battleships, is not being stopped by the British Foreign Office as a breach of neutrality.

Actually a degree of caution has to be mentioned here. The British modeled a lot of their airship designs on the remains of the German airships that they destroyed. Most of these airships were the 'height climbers' that were built to fly high to evade British aircraft. They were fragile by...

First off Graf is usually spelt with one 'f'. Zeppelins are extremely expensive, not just themselves but their entire infrastructure. The airships will probably eventually lose out to the heavy bombers, as seen with the Gotha and the R type planes that superceded them historically.

The Hawaiians quickly figure out that it was a terrible idea since they would be treated as second class citizens within the own islands. Of course this is only about forty years before what happened historically.

True, but without the original Monitor there probably wouldn't be the Roanoke. It would be more correct - in every sense of the word - to post a picture of HMS Royal Sovereign.

There is a very good article about it's design and construction in the journal Warship International. I believe it is pointed out that there is practically no information in English about her career in the French name. What is interesting is that Dunderberg's original design called for two...

No, the blockade is affected - yet only briefly in one place. The Virginia can't be everywhere and any holes are usually plugged up quickly.

The USS New Ironsides is practically forgotten as opposed to the monitors, and it was one of the best ironclads built by the Union. The monitor was a technological deadend, but it served its purpose in allowing the quick creation of an ironclad fleet. The CSS Virginia may be able to punch a...

The British, or at least the government at the time, didn't want to devote money to another naval race. The British did welcome the idea of naval arms limitation treaty and when they arrived in Washington they were both surprised and happy to go alone with the proposal outlined by Charles Evans...

I would consider that the rapid building of cruisers and destroyers, while a hallmark of US industrial capability in the 20th century, is not there until the 1910s.

The first major battleships built for the US were coastal defense ships and were probably called as such in order to get funded by the US Congress.

Like most minor powers they would probably buy warships from the British and other Europeans. On another point, nothing will save Maximilian in Mexico - at least from tumbling off his throne. The Imperial Government doesn't have the support of either major political group and the peons don't...

That's an interesting post and thanks for the link. It raises many good points, and while I think it is a little too dystopian, leaves much to contemplate.

I would consider that without the Philippines the US would pursue a treaty port on the Chinese coast. It would be a way to secure a port of entry for US trade.

I would think the fact we name aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines after them good enough. However, I wish they would name a carrier the USS Chester Arthur or USS Millard Fillmore.

Stand, Gentlemen, he served on Samar! By chance I was just thinking about General 'Howling' Jake Smith. I wish someone would write a biography about him.

I think a few people are forgetting that this neutral superpower is supposed to be before 1900.