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  1. Dread Nought but the Fury of the Seas

    Elswick is the ordnance branch of Armstrong's.

  2. Why was the KGV over complicated?

    Actually, the RN had eight twin 15" turrets available, one each in HMS EREBUS, HMS TERROR and HMS MARSHAL SOULT (removed and mounted later in HMS ROBERTS), the four turrets removed from HMS COURAGEOUS and HMS GLORIOUS and the spare originally built for HMS FURIOUS (later mounted in HMS...

  3. Best predreadnought for Craddock?

    i think one class of RN has been left out of consideration, the DUNCANs. These ships were designed to dealing with Russian fast battleships and had been reduced to the reserve only in early 1914. While still on 19 knot ships, they were in a much best material state than the CANOPUS and had a...

  4. April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

    If you are doing poetry about minesweepers, then there is only one chose Mine-Sweepers - Poem by Rudyard Kipling Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making Jumbled and short and steep -- Black in the hollows and bright where it's breaking -- Awkward water to sweep. "Mines reported in...

  5. Why the Chinese play cricket (The Pax Imperialis)

    I continue to look forward to more. Of course I am old enough that I would have studied all of this as a schoolboy in a current events course. Gator

  6. Why the Chinese play cricket (The Pax Imperialis)

    A fascinating timeline. I look forward to seeing where it leads.

  7. April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

    Marines This is a very well thought and researched timeline. Very enjoyable. But I will point out the head gear of your Royal Marines look suspiciously like the tam o' shanter worn by Scottish troops. bbgator

  8. The Dogger Bank War

    Dogger Bank Nice start and I look forward to more. BTW, Edward VII was King in 1905, not George V. gator

  9. Kimmel dies. Kidd lives

    Kimmel dies, Kidd lives RAdm Kidd was junior to both VAdm Pye, Commander Battle Force Pacific Fleet, and RAdm Anderson, Commander Battleships Pacific Fleet.

  10. Jutland Redux

    Perky, Don't let the fanboys get you down, it is after all, your story, and a very good one. One note, in 1916, British brigades had 4 battalions, the change to the three battalion structure came as a result of Lloyd George withholding replacements from Haig. Best regards, Gator

  11. MacArthur a Six Star General!

    Five star rank is General of the Army. The legislation which created the rank allowed four five stars for the Navy and four for the Army. The initial Army officers were: Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Arnold. When the USAF was created, the Army was allowed another officer to replace...

  12. The Great War at Sea

    The story about Kit Craddock and the 1st Cruiser Squadron is title "Traditions" by Elizabeth Moon and printed in the first volume of Harry Turtledoves "Alternate Generals". Gator

  13. Interestin thought, Cheney killed Sept 11 Daddy Bush vp

    VP There is no Constitutional prohibition against relatives serving as Pres/VP, but there is a prohibition against two individuals from the same state. That is why Cheney changed his residence from Texas back to Wyoming before the 2000 election. Gator

  14. Edward VIII marriage question

    Albert, Duke of York, later George VI, was the second son of George V and his preference as his successor. Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was the THIRD son of George V. If Albert died before Edward, his daughter, Elizabeth, would be Edward's successor, followed by her children, then her sister...

  15. Nazi long-range naval surface battlegroups

    Kriegsmarine There were three of the PRINZ EUGEN class heavy cruisers laid down. LUTZOW was transfered to the USSR under the provisions of the February 1940 German-Soviet Trade Agreement. SEYDLITZ was never completed. In August 1942, the decision was made to convert SEYDLITZ to an aircraft...

  16. Argentina 'repatriates' Falklands population in 1982

    USERTRON, I stand corrected in that Kirkpatrick was the Ambassador to the UN and did not have any special position. But, she had a great deal of influence on the President on issues concerning Latin America, probably more than Haig. And she definately believed in Galtieri, echoing the old...

  17. Argentina 'repatriates' Falklands population in 1982

    Kirkpatrick Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was a special advisor to the President, believed that an authoritarian regime, regardless of how oppressive it behaved, deserved American support as long as it was overtly anti-communist. Galtieri himself was highly thought of by certain members of the...

  18. Argentina 'repatriates' Falklands population in 1982

    Oh, I don't know With Jeane Kirkpatrick whispering into Reagan's ear how the Argentines are the good guys here and are only eliminating a cell of godless communists and that it more important to support Galtieri's regime than a long time ally, who knows how it would play out. While being...

  19. A Stronger ABDA Command

    Riain, Sorry, I was not clear. Remaining as part of ABDAFLOAT is only one of several options, including retiring to Trincomalee, retiring to Australia or going to Pearl Harbor. HMS Warspite, A USN admiral is the equivilent to a RN admiral. The US rank of Fleet Admiral was created in December...

  20. A Stronger ABDA Command

    ABDAFLOAT was not a tactical command, whereas the command of Force Z was. If Phillips and Force Z survive and join the ABDA forces, not necessarily a given, then Phillips will serve as either; tactical commander of Force Z under Hart, or as deputy ABDAFLOAT with Palliser as commander of Force Z...
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