What if Chile insisted that HMS Eagle be returned after she was completed in 1924?
The RN can use the available tonnage gained by not having Eagle to build a practical(ie faster than 24 knots) fleet carrier sometime in the mid 1930s under the naval treatiesWhat if Chile insisted that HMS Eagle be returned after she was completed in 1924?
Chile would be told to get back in her box.What if Chile insisted that HMS Eagle be returned after she was completed in 1924?
You mean instead of telling Britain to buy it in 1918 or do you mean pulling an about-face in 1924? If it's the latter its simply not going to fly as outlined above.What if Chile insisted that HMS Eagle be returned after she was completed in 1924?
No. The Chileans had an economic decline starting in 1913 when the first industrial use of the haber process broke the Chilean monopoly on World nitrate.Did the Chileans pay for her?
I thought that the British purchased the Chilean battleships under construction in the UK at the start of WWI and offered to sell them back at a decent discount at the end of the war but since Chile wanted the Admirante Cochrane reconverted back to a battleship which would have required a lot of work without a major increase in how much they would pay so the RN kept herNo. The Chileans had an economic decline starting in 1913 when the first industrial use of the haber process broke the Chilean monopoly on World nitrate.
Nitrate prices declined and investor trust in the Chilean economy (and therefore loans) disappeared.
They didn't pay for the ships they ordered therefore they didn't get it.
Chile with an aircraft carrier would be interesting. Probably the only carrier regularly operating in the South Pacific. I imagine the US won’t be pleased, nor Japan, to share the Pacific with another CV-enabled navy.I thought that the British purchased the Chilean battleships under construction in the UK at the start of WWI and offered to sell them back at a decent discount at the end of the war but since Chile wanted the Admirante Cochrane reconverted back to a battleship which would have required a lot of work without a major increase in how much they would pay so the RN kept her