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surely you have heard of western alienation.BC is also a hive of shipbuilding.Bennett was also very much on the bad side of everyone which was reflected in his election loss of 170 to 40.

Unfortunately in this country regional political squabling trumps any logical allocation of building so I had to distribute what would appear to be the bulk of the work around while concentrating the more complicated bits and pieces in one place(turbines in Toronto,Guns and boilers in...

On a site called Kagero.pl they list the armor on Graff Zepplin as being 5,000 tonnes so that's one quarter of a bismarcks armor now the question is was the armor for the second carrier made or not.

was expecting that.OTL had the Bitterns with 3 twin 4/45 mounts each weighing 20 tons.the 8barrel pompom mount weighs 16 tons so 4 tons lighter.that and i increased beam by 2 feet to help with the ice build up mostly. smaller stuff add to suit. One can also consider it being the RCN heirarchy...

And now for an on topic serious suggestion. Given R B Benetts parsimony in the early years of the depression and seeing his popularity plummet leading up to the 1935 election he goes against character and decides to introduce a make work program part of which will be naval construction. the...

They should have split them up and sent some both ways.Could have trained ppl to do admin and sent the seagoing folks to sea. The more I read books by the folks who were actually there the less respect i have for the Heirarchy of the RCN.Point Halifax was basically the western terminus of the...

Would cut down on the growing pains.Kinda stupid keeping your experienced ppl ashore while the Navy goes from less than 2000 to about 110,000 personell and 7 ships to almost 400.

Doing something like that would force the prewar RCN officers to actually got to sea during the war as opposed to the desk commands they filled in OTL while keeping themselves ready to command the destroyers and cruisers they were lusting after.

Just a few years earlier start on(or commitment to ) building an ASW fleet would allow that.Ironing out all the production details without needing things done yesterday would work wonders.

i am always amazed at how many people (can't really blame them)assume Canada just cut trees down and dug rocks out of the ground.One of the drawbacks of having the US as your neighbour.Shocks a lot of ppl when you tell them the second country to build a nuclear reactor in the world was Canada.O...

An interesting response by the Admiralty would be to not accelerate or build more BB's but to build more trade protection/maintenance carriers(i e Unicorn or better yet the light fleets) and very long range reconnaissance aircraft sorry meant transatlantic passenger aircraft....honestly.And...

Wiki says the Lions were ordered out of fear of being outnumbered by a combined number of german/japanese BBs,suggesting construction would continue on the Lions.

In OTL the secondary guns had been spirited off to Norway for coastal defence .Not that they did much.

i agree it would be highly unlikely any of the Lions would be worked upon. instead as much as possible resources would be diverted to completing more KGV's ASAP.One way to free up more labor would be to order the corvettes and possibly the hunts from Canadian yards which pretty much had nothing...

I am very adept at obfuscation.My bad. I would imagine they were all busy building Uboats.

if one looks carefully on the weights on Kbismarck.com you find more armor listed separately as turret armor adding another 1598 metric tons.You almost wonder if it was carved out of a solid chunk of steel.That's 19,098 tons or almost 50% of standard displacement .

I found it on the KBismarck.com site.

They would be wherever the ships are being built.prob easy enough to move them around.

The Bismarck had 17,500 tonnes of armor plate which in order to get all of it from 2 Graf Zepplins they need to have over 25% of their standard displacement in armor which i will guess and say no.

You missed my point. OTL had work on "A" halted May 1940,work on "B" halted September 1939. You have construction on the third BB completing Dec 1940. So that's about 16 months for one set of workers and 8 months for another set of workers where you have them working on the third "BB" when in...