The exchange distinguishes a newly completed ship from one that is still technologically and operationally young. The battlecruisers associated with the Falklands response are described as already seven or eight years old, while a quoted account calls them brand new and invokes dockyard personnel aboard. The account's date and its attribution of the decision to Jackie Fisher are also questioned. A compelling wartime story can become an overly neat claim unless its dates, actors, and ship histories are checked closely.
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The age of the battlecruisers at the Falklands
A historical correction challenges the idea that the British battlecruisers sent after Coronel were brand new in 1914.