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The final Swedish reference offers a broad illustrated overview of the country's naval forces and coastal-defence history around the twentieth century.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
A 107,000-ton carrier is physically plausible, but flight-deck organization makes an air group much above roughly 96 aircraft self-defeating.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
A modern-torpedo counterfactual distinguishes physically launching a Mark 48 from supplying the fire-control information needed to hit a target.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
British adoption of the SBD Dauntless would require reduced span or folding wings because compact shipboard stowage was a Royal Navy aircraft requirement.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
The visible spacing between HMS Tiger's after turrets follows from the position of turbines and gearing and from the need to balance the hull.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
If the F8F Bearcat were available early enough, the Royal Navy might adopt it in place of the Wildcat and never need the Hellcat as an intermediate step.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
Fifteen-inch coastal guns would threaten Allied battleships more than 11-inch or 9.4-inch weapons, but attackers can concentrate superior force at a chosen point.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
Designing the F-15 for both land and carrier service could create a shared Air Force-Navy pool and remove much of the requirement that produced the F/A-18.
From Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already! ·
Second-rate ships sat between first-rate power and third-rate numbers, a position that helps explain both their poor reputation and their value.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
Second rates widened the battle line's heavy core, creating or exploiting gaps that third rates could then reinforce.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
As first rates grew beyond the 64-, 74-, and 80-gun fleet core, the changing rating system opened a place for second rates.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
Royal Catherine and Charles remained in service through rebuilds and renamings that carried each ship's identity across about a century.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
Design limits did not prevent repeated Royal Navy construction of second rates, including Thomas Slade's Barfleur class.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
Second rates in ordinary could form the heavy core of an emergency fleet if Britain lost its main battle force.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
Britain held second rates as reserve heavy ships, while rival navies could use comparable firepower to offset Royal Navy advantages in sea time and training.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
HMS Union's hospital conversion shows how Royal Navy bureaucracy, standardised production, and flexible accounting supported fleet adaptation.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
The Battle of the Saintes shows a second rate breaking the line, while the handling discussion explains why the type needed skilled control.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
An early US Navy thought experiment proposes second rates as a more attainable heavy defensive fleet than prestigious first rates.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
The design question weighs faster, more heavily armed two-deckers against the deck-clearing height of the Royal Navy's three-decked second rates.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
The conclusion rejects sweeping judgments and places second rates within a period when roughly 25 large ships supplied the fleet's heavy core.
From Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 4 ·
The opening frames a counterfactual where Fisher's Courageous-class ships become full fleet carriers rather than large light cruisers.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The Tsingtao air attack and Royal Naval Air Service torpedo work give Fisher a plausible reason to back carrier strike ships.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The design sketch combines Hermes and Eagle ideas with a battlecruiser-sized hull to create a fast carrier built around reconnaissance and torpedo strike.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
A larger Renown-derived hull could trade heavy guns and armor for roughly 90 aircraft, high speed, and reconnaissance support for North Sea or Baltic operations.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The construction discussion weighs how many carriers Fisher might order, how fast they could complete, and whether suitable aircraft could be ready.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The first carriers would combine a useful island and efficient funnel arrangement with immature lifts, deck shaping, launch gear, and aircraft-handling practice.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
A post-Jutland carrier force could launch mass torpedo strikes at ships in Wilhelmshaven, forcing Germany to rethink harbor safety.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The Baltic plan looks different when aircraft can attack over islands, strike Kiel Canal concentrations, and help neutralize mine and submarine barriers.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The revised Baltic operation uses expendable mine-clearing ships, Danish geography, carrier strikes, and anti-submarine work after the German fleet has already been weakened.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The strategic aim of severing Germany's Baltic imports could be powerful, but Fisher's personal working style was poorly suited to the information and coordination demands of modern war.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Successful wartime strikes could turn Hood's sisters into carriers and leave the Royal Navy with several distinct carrier types in service or under construction.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
If carrier squadrons have already shaped operations, Royal Navy leaders have a much stronger case for retaining them when the Royal Air Force is created.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
British carrier tonnage already approaching 300,000 tons would force negotiators to reconsider limits, exemptions, and parity before Washington-style talks even begin.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Loss of Baltic food and material imports could collapse Germany before April 1917, reducing both British debt and American leverage over the peace settlement.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Negotiators might distinguish fleet, light-fleet, and cruiser carriers to preserve British wartime ships while setting usable limits for future construction.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Separate fleet-carrier categories could prompt negotiators to create distinct battlecruiser and battleship allowances around ships such as Hood and the Lexington class.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Converting Hood's sisters avoids the difficult fast-battleship redesign and redirects their volume toward aircraft support, speed, and deck handling.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
Allowing ten carriers of up to 35,000 tons could push capital-ship limits upward, preserve Hood, and leave Britain room for more or faster battleships.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The closing causal link compares a successful Tsingtao air attack with Fisher's earlier habit of using Japanese naval success at Tsushima to validate ideas he already favored.
From Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers ·
The opening explains why HMS Unicorn should be read as a forward aviation support ship rather than simply another Royal Navy aircraft carrier.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
A reconstruction of Admiralty politics shows why Rear Admiral Reginald Henderson was unusually well placed to push Unicorn into the building programme.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
Henderson's earlier carrier exercises suggest that the Abyssinia crisis sold an existing support concept to the Treasury rather than creating it.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
Unicorn's workshops, lifts, aircraft lighter, and communications spaces show how a mobile support ship could keep carrier aircraft operational near the fleet.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
Unicorn's ordering beside the larger Implacable-class carriers undermines the claim that she existed merely to compensate for Illustrious-class capacity limits.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
The Royal Navy's pre-war carrier plans paired specialized ships in multi-carrier formations rather than expecting every carrier to perform the same job.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
A tour of British bases shows why a mobile aviation workshop became essential once a fleet advanced beyond Singapore toward a blockade of Japan.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
The Asama Maru and Vincent de Paul confrontations illustrate the recurring friction that made Japan, rather than a European enemy, Britain's most difficult logistical case.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·
Unicorn's unusually arranged hangars created room to store aircraft, isolate long repairs, and surround damaged machines with workshops and maintainers.
From Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value! ·