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I really can't see Canada operating a BB or BC in peacetime, and if they can, they won't operate much else.
Considering the ship was Chilean, they may want it back as per OTL.
I really can't see Canada operating a BB or BC in peacetime, and if they can, they won't operate much else.
Sure, but Peg Leg Pom has her as going to Canada, which I don't find plausible.Considering the ship was Chilean, they may want it back as per OTL.
Well to be more exact they did a lot redesign work on them to the extent that they would have been at best half sisters to Hood but by the time said design work was done the war was pretty much over and the funding and resources to build them wasn't there anymore especially since by this point the RN was favoring a blank slate design and so they got canceled in early 1919.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.
Perhaps Von Spee raided the Canadian West Coast before heading to South America and his appointment in the Falklands, so the Canadian Government is taking naval defence much more seriously.Sure, but Peg Leg Pom has her as going to Canada, which I don't find plausible.
Mind you they're more likely to buy and operate four or so Counties/Yorks along with roughly a dozen subs and around two or three flotillas of Destroyers in that casePerhaps Von Spee raided the Canadian West Coast before heading to South America and his appointment in the Falklands, so the Canadian Government is taking naval defence much more seriously.
If the Canadians wanted a capital ship it would be a battlecruiser. A cruisers squadron would rings around HMCS Canada.Perhaps Von Spee raided the Canadian West Coast before heading to South America and his appointment in the Falklands, so the Canadian Government is taking naval defence much more seriously.
I'm guessing they sold the Mississippis and bought the South Carolinas at close to scrap value then.The Hellenic Navy takes over the two South Carolina class Semi Dreadnought BB's from the USN after WWI rather than the two Mississippi Class Pre Dreadnoughts. Laid up in the 1930's they are taken to the US for refurbishment just prior to the Italian invasion.
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Is this for a TL you are writing?The Hellenic Navy takes over the two South Carolina class Semi Dreadnought BB's from the USN after WWI rather than the two Mississippi Class Pre Dreadnoughts. Laid up in the 1930's they are taken to the US for refurbishment just prior to the Italian invasion.
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I'm guessing they sold the Mississippis and bought the South Carolinas at close to scrap value then.
No, just throwing out ideas. The 1920's is a decade where there's a lot of potential for reusing WWI surplus warships if things were just a little different.Is this for a TL you are writing?
If the Canadians wanted a capital ship it would be a battlecruiser. A cruisers squadron would rings around HMCS Canada.
That said a cruiser squadron of their own might be more fitting.
A battlecruiser might be a Canada seeing major tensions with the Japanese and looking to form the nucleus of a Royal Navy Pacific Battlecruiser fleet.
Hmmm in that case the 3rd New Mexico isn't built since it was funded by the sale of the MississippisNever bought the Mississippi's to start with, but yes got the South Carolina's at scrap value.
Never bought the Mississippi's to start with, but yes got the South Carolina's at scrap value.
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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Her father actually, though Tony did do Some Like It Hot in drag the same year.The movie was early 1960's IIRC. There was a short-lived TV series in the late 70's with John Astin and Jamie Lee Curtis (her mother did the movie).
Never bought the Mississippi's to start with, but yes got the South Carolina's at scrap value.
Given the tensions in Europe at the time I don't think the UK or anybody but the US was selling and even then its telling that they sold the most realivistly modern class they weren't the happiest with to be begin with. Mind you the USN wasn't going to sell relatively new battleships for nothing. Mind you they had a reason since the 3rd New Mexico was paid for by the sale.Amazingly enough the Greeks paid the full original construction costs for the Mississippis. Seems insane considering how rapidly they were outmoded. Seems like by that point they could have bought some British pre dreadnoughts for a lot less.
Her Majesty's Treasury's preferred next generation Royal Navy Frigate, though they'd like it built for but not with the gun.
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