DBWI - A visit to HMS Hood

You could tell it was endorsed by MacArthur, it's huge and flashy and not very well loved as much as the touching Algerian Vichy French navy surrender painting on the Ark Royal.

Well to bad they never have named a carrier the Ark Royal again, would love to see the name being used as the lead ship of what they had to name the England-class aircraft carrier, never could understand why the named those three England, Scotland and Wales.
 
Well to bad they never have named a carrier the Ark Royal again, would love to see the name being used as the lead ship of what they had to name the England-class aircraft carrier, never could understand why the named those three England, Scotland and Wales.
I thought it was the United Class, there were going to be three of them, and thats why the ships were named the way they were
 
I thought it was the United Class, there were going to be three of them, and thats why the ships were named the way they were

Well whatever it was named, most likely a political decision it was, they did however did a good job during the Falklands war where they took part in the only carrier battle sins the end of the WWII.
 
Well whatever it was named, most likely a political decision it was, they did however did a good job during the Falklands war where they took part in the only carrier battle sins the end of the WWII.
Id love to know what Argentina was smoking during that war, sure the Brits get rid of an icebreaker and are thinking of cancelling a carrier. But did you honestly think with 1 real carrier and two escorts that they wouldnt be able to whoop you?
 
Id love to know what Argentina was smoking during that war, sure the Brits get rid of an icebreaker and are thinking of cancelling a carrier. But did you honestly think with 1 real carrier and two escorts that they wouldnt be able to whoop you?

I know that before the war the Argentina's had a major naval deal with, surprising, the British, had the Argentina's waited one year they would have 2 carriers and some more escorts to fight with.
 
I know that before the war the Argentina's had a major naval deal with, surprising, the British, had the Argentina's waited one year they would have 2 carriers and some more escorts to fight with.
Ironically the Eagle and the Centaur were the escorts:p

I wonder if they were smoking the same thing the Germans were when they decided to invade Russia.
 
Ironically the Eagle and the Centaur were the escorts:p

I wonder if they were smoking the same thing the Germans were when they decided to invade Russia.

Well they got answer when the Soviets stormed Berlin in 1945.

OOC, i am a little bit confused, are the Eagle and the Centaur British ships.
 
Well they got answer when the Soviets stormed Berlin in 1945.

OOC, i am a little bit confused, are the Eagle and the Centaur British ships.
OOC: Yes, originally Centaur was sold to Argentina but in this TL another ship was sold in place and Centaur endured in the RN were it was prepared to be sold when Port Stanley was invaded.

Have you ever seen Hitlers mega-ship? The H44 super-vessel?
 
OOC: Yes, originally Centaur was sold to Argentina but in this TL another ship was sold in place and Centaur endured in the RN were it was prepared to be sold when Port Stanley was invaded.

Have you ever seen Hitlers mega-ship? The H44 super-vessel?

Only images, you would think that Hitler would have stopped building or designing these mega battleships after the loss of the Bismarck by the Hood, but rumors say he wanted a mega battleships that could take on the hood and sink here.
 
Only images, you would think that Hitler would have stopped building or designing these mega battleships after the loss of the Bismarck by the Hood, but rumors say he wanted a mega battleships that could take on the hood and sink here.
I actually got a program called SpringSharp and designed the ship Hitler (not his Admirals who recognized the lessons) and the Frigger would've been 2000 Ft. Long (Almost two and a half Titanics in a row:eek:), Dora sized guns (Which were too big), and 15 inch secondary armarment (Yamato, start running).

Thats at least a decade of work.

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I actually got a program called SpringSharp and designed the ship Hitler (not his Admirals who recognized the lessons) and the Frigger would've been 2000 Ft. Long (Almost two and a half Titanics in a row:eek:), Dora sized guns (Which were too big), and 15 inch secondary armarment (Yamato, start running).

Thats at least a decade of work.

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How many tanks could have been build with that steel, the Soviets would have been in Berlin in 1944 instead of November 4th 1945 if she was build, only because Hitler wanted to sink the Royal Navy pride and joy.
 
How many tanks could have been build with that steel, the Soviets would have been in Berlin in 1944 instead of November 4th 1945 if she was build, only because Hitler wanted to sink the Royal Navy pride and joy.
If Hitler started in 1934 the British wouldve had a field day with their naval spending, maybe the Tallboy would've been ready.
 
If Hitler started in 1934 the British wouldve had a field day with their naval spending, maybe the Tallboy would've been ready.

Well the Tallboy did have a reparation for being ship killers, of course all ships like the Graf Zeppelin where anchored when they where hit by Tallboys.
 
With a 2000 ft long ship, even the RAF of 1940 could've hit it.

They would never been able to get that massive ship out of harbor in the first place, lucky for the royal navy, but then again, maybe Hood would have also gotten lucky with what ever monster the German had decided to send into action.
 
They would never been able to get that massive ship out of harbor in the first place, lucky for the royal navy, but then again, maybe Hood would have also gotten lucky with what ever monster the German had decided to send into action.
The ship I designed wouldve needed mulitple nukes to knock it out. Sadly Hitler designed a good megaship and made the harbors accordingly.
 
To bad for Hitler, he had smart admirals who stalled it from ever becoming more than a paper mega ship.
Though they used the materials for the harbors quite well, post-war the shipbuilding industry has been quite a boon (2000 ft. Slipyards they couldnt stop)

Heck it allowed them to get over the loss of St. Nazarie.
 
Though they used the materials for the harbors quite well, post-war the shipbuilding industry has been quite a boon (2000 ft. Slipyards they couldnt stop)

Heck it allowed them to get over the loss of St. Nazarie.

Yes, all because Hitler wanted a mega battleship that could sink the Hood, i wonder how everything would be if the Bismarck sank the Hood, would the war end earlier or would the Germans have won the war, my personal opinion the war would have ended in middle of 1945 instead of end 1945.
 
Yes, all because Hitler wanted a mega battleship that could sink the Hood, i wonder how everything would be if the Bismarck sank the Hood, would the war end earlier or would the Germans have won the war, my personal opinion the war would have ended in middle of 1945 instead of end 1945.
It still wouldnt have mattered, as Hitler showed the Nazis had more than a few problems. Anyway the Brits had their own problems in WW1 (Admiral "Eggshell" Fisher anyone?)
 
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