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If completed Admiral-class ships forced a 40,000- to 45,000-ton treaty ceiling, Nelson and Rodney could become substantially faster or more heavily armed.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Speed claims must account for hull form, displacement, and cruising efficiency rather than simply adding armament and power.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The Royal Navy may not have operated its own icebreaker fleet, but Britain could draw on escaped Norwegian vessels and Allied expertise.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Building more Yamato-scale ships required more than funding: Japan also faced yard capacity, land, and earthquake-resilience constraints.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A 1,000-pound semi-armour-piercing bomb might not destroy every engine, but it could remove the speed needed to escape.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A useful postwar Lord Nelson would need new machinery, new weapons, and a mission far removed from her original battle-line role.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Diesels offered German warships useful range but could not yet provide all the high-speed power the designs demanded.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The limiting problem was not only generator weight but the materials and machinery needed to deliver very high diesel power reliably.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Seaplanes remain useful where islands and open water provide operating areas but conventional runways are scarce.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Avoiding war in China could improve Japan's economy while denying it the forward bases used for the 1941 southern offensives.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Battle noise and human limits made controlled salvo firing short-lived in age-of-sail combat.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
American battlecruiser thinking culminated in ships meant to hunt cruisers, escort forces, and protect or attack commerce rather than duel battleships.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
An additional ship changes deployments and crew quality as well as the arithmetic of a single battle.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Japan might win an initial landing in the Philippines, but Spain could return with warships, firearms, and naval gunfire that Japan could not match in the same quantity.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Radar equal to the US Navy's would combine Japanese night-fighting skill and long-range torpedoes with much better detection.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A new-condition Vanguard offers space, stability, and heavy guns that could support a modernized presence and amphibious-support role.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Royal Navy heavy-gun crews could sustain a faster practical rate because they spent more time exercising and firing at sea.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Very long cargo openings give Great Lakes bulk carriers exceptional capacity but leave their hulls working and twisting in heavy water.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Adding 34 feet and two shafts to an existing carrier demands major structural and machinery work.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Materials define the theoretical boundary, but ammunition handling and useful rate of fire impose the real design limit.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Taking cover offered little protection aboard a wooden warship and meant abandoning the work needed to fight the ship.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A model and drawings make the enormous Duke of Kent proposal credible as a design, but they do not settle who originated every idea within it.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Lengthening a hull, replacing machinery, and installing a new combat system can cost more and deliver less than new construction.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Before Jutland, parts of the battlecruiser force and some cruiser squadrons could value firing speed over accuracy.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Some exceptionally long Royal Navy careers conceal repeated great refits that replaced much of the physical ship.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Destroyers combine guns, torpedoes, and depth charges on a small hull, while submarines devote much of their displacement to diving and survival underwater.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Frequent replenishment from supply ships compensated for limited aviation fuel and magazine capacity.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The ship best able to defeat a major opponent is too expensive to be present everywhere a navy has peacetime duties.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A large programme of modern wartime destroyers could form the core of the postwar Royal Navy without defining the whole force.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Armour thickness alone says little without understanding the area protected and the machinery and magazine layout beneath it.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The class existed to use intermediate shipyards but offered less value than larger destroyers from major yards.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
An anti-submarine ship manoeuvres to control its sensor geometry, not simply to chase a submarine at high speed.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
A battlecruiser can match a battleship's maximum belt thickness while protecting far less of the hull.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Britain's determination to stay safely below 35,000 tons left roughly 1,500 tons that might have improved speed or protection.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
The Nelson machinery layout could lead a third shaft aft on a short, nearly direct run rather than through an extreme angle.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Eskimo and Nubian are among the British ships whose survival demonstrates how severe damage did not automatically mean loss.
From Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer ·
Who each government sent to Washington reveals its priorities and whether the resulting treaty could win support at home.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Calling the American delegates citizens expressed a republican identity while leaving their official treaty-making authority intact.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
The American delegation sought global recognition and a cheaper alternative to competing capital-ship programmes.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Balfour, Lee, and Geddes brought different responsibilities and attitudes to a government pursuing peace through disarmament.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
New Zealand needed British naval protection while facing limits on both financial contributions and the crews it could provide.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
American industrial capacity supported bargaining over naval limits, while restrictions on Japanese construction offered savings and recognition of parity with Britain.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Britain entered seeking peace and economy, but would not accept limits that prevented it from policing a global empire with cruisers.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Arms limits require more than signatures: governments must judge whether a violation is serious enough to enforce at real political cost.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand wanted different levels of local naval effort, but all had a stake in a strong Royal Navy.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Canada could promise great wartime potential, but only ships already in service would create an immediate peacetime deterrent.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
Australia's dispersed population and maritime trade made naval forces essential, while interwar yard competition made major ships more attainable than modern monopolies suggest.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·
A proposal to restore Royal dockyards weighs possible savings against the government's obligation to sustain construction between orders.
From What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted... ·