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The unusual all-forward layout concentrated magazines and armour to fit 16-inch firepower within treaty and dockyard constraints.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The counterfactual turns on the difference between torpedo protection designed into a hull and protection added to an older battleship.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
C turret could not fire over B within its 30-degree elevation limit, though a reversed superfiring arrangement might have allowed all three turrets to bear ahead.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Nelson's flagship role, mine damage, and wartime deployments show how the Royal Navy managed one of only two 16-inch battleships.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The crews of Nelson and Rodney joined the Invergordon refusal to sail after proposed pay cuts exposed a breakdown between sailors, fleet officers, and the Admiralty.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
A lighter secondary battery might have helped fund a third shaft, but probably not the full machinery needed for four shafts.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Nelson's larger flagship staff made her junior officers' accommodation more crowded than Rodney's.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The Royal Navy intended Nelson, Rodney, and Hood to enter the Channel and use heavy guns against an invasion force.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Rodney's troublesome machinery and succession of notable commanders show how leadership affected the usefulness of a scarce two-ship class.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Rodney pushed beyond her expected speed to join the Bismarck hunt, then used nine 16-inch guns to cripple the German battleship.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
After Bismarck, Rodney continued through Mediterranean operations and the Normandy landings until wartime strain made a major repair uneconomic.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The treaty maximum created pressure to field the largest permitted calibre even when retaining 15-inch ammunition commonality had logistical advantages.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Nelson's periods under repair shifted more wartime work onto Rodney, whose Bismarck action also imposed exceptional structural strain.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
By commander rank, appointment patterns often reveal whether an officer is being prepared for flag command or moved toward a terminal specialist post.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The evacuation of Crete needed air cover more urgently than another battleship, despite Rodney's formidable guns.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
A heavier shell would have required new handling machinery, while the adopted 16-inch performance rested on trials that did not translate cleanly into practice.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
A ranking question becomes a lesson in comparing capability, transport, sustainment, basing, and readiness rather than counting nominal weapons.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Renown, Repulse, Nelson, and Rodney show why losing one member of a two-ship class can reshape every later deployment.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The closing interpretation links Nelson's heavy protection to Beatty's survivability-first reading of Jutland and the institutional habits it encouraged.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
Similar constraints can lead British, French, Japanese, and Korean planners toward related carrier solutions without making one design a direct copy.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The two-island arrangement follows separate exhaust stacks and improves the placement of lifts, hangar volume, ship control, and flight-deck operations.
From Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney ·
The opening design counterfactual asks how six twin 9.2-inch turrets might have changed the class, while separating that possibility from the qualities of the ships actually built.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The Duke of Edinburgh class was designed to scout for the battle fleet and defeat opposing cruisers, while retaining the reach for traditional trade-protection work.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The class combined 9.2-inch guns, ten 6-inch casemate guns, quick-firing weapons, and torpedoes to fight through the layered threats around a battle fleet.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The cruiser’s dimensions mattered because Royal Navy dry docks from home waters to Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and Hong Kong could accommodate it.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The choice of triple-expansion engines balanced a 23-knot top speed and long range against the cost and technical risk of early turbine machinery.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The class’s belt, deck, turret, and conning-tower protection reflected an expectation that it would survive cruiser combat, while Philip Watts designed amid rapid technological change.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The Mark X 9.2-inch gun connected armoured-cruiser firepower with coastal defence, later monitors, and an unusually long international service life.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The class’s hull form and gun layout may connect the King Edward VII class to HMS Dreadnought through iterative experimentation.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The King Edward VII class’s wartime service shows how pre-dreadnought battleships moved from fleet and patrol duties into secondary roles rather than becoming useless overnight.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
HMS Duke of Edinburgh’s long range supported diplomacy, pursuit duties, Red Sea convoy protection, and later escort work across the First World War.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
HMS Duke of Edinburgh's construction at Pembroke reveals how widely the Royal Navy's state-owned shipbuilding capacity extended beyond famous yards.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Before joining the Grand Fleet, HMS Black Prince pursued Goeben and Breslau, protected Red Sea traffic, captured German merchant ships, and prepared to search for warships off Africa.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The class’s low deck casemate guns were difficult to use outside calm seas, prompting an early wartime rearrangement that exposed a practical design weakness.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Black Prince's builder, Thames Iron Works, went out of business in 1912 despite a record stretching from HMS Warrior to an Orion-class super-dreadnought.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The First Cruiser Squadron’s changing composition leads into Gordon Moore’s Dogger Bank experience and the difficult boundary between obedience and initiative.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The Minotaur class's mixture of twin 9.2-inch and numerous 7.5-inch guns is criticized as a pre-dreadnought solution carried into the age of directed fire.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Troubridge proposed using pressure on German trade to force the High Seas Fleet into risks that could produce the decisive naval battle Britain wanted.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The pursuit of Goeben shows how force imbalance, uncertain enemy intentions, and vague higher-level instructions shaped Troubridge’s decision to abandon the chase.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Troubridge lost future seagoing command while the gunnery expert who advised withdrawal continued to advance, revealing how accountability and patronage shaped naval careers.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
In this account, First Cruiser Squadron’s losses began with Arbuthnot’s deliberate choice to move between the battle fleets rather than down the safer disengaged side.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Destroyers were expected to dash between battle lines because torpedo attack justified the danger and their replacement cost differed sharply from that of cruisers.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Separated from her squadron, Black Prince encountered several German dreadnoughts at point-blank range during Jutland's confused night fighting.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
After First Cruiser Squadron fragmented, HMS Duke of Edinburgh served Jellicoe as a reporting cruiser and supplied information at important moments of the battle.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
The closing assessment treats the class as capable but overtaken by the expanding battlecruiser, while warning against judging cruisers only by their vulnerability to capital ships.
From Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol) ·
Docks, transport links, supply, and repair capacity determine where a navy can operate and keep its forces usable.
From British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II) ·
The move from sail to ironclads and battlecruisers made advanced docking capacity a direct constraint on ship design and worldwide operations.
From British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II) ·
A ship can fit on paper yet still require lightening because water pressure, displacement, and local conditions limit a dock in practice.
From British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II) ·