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In lugnet.build, Richard Parsons writes:
> > In lugnet.build, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> >
> > I built a little boat.
> >
> > http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/Friedrich-der-Grosse.html
>
> Just stupendous Lindsay.
>
> The snot-wise approach to hull design has worked a treat, the turrets
> (always my worry) are wonderful, and the detail around the superstructure is
> glorious.
Hey, thanks! It's no pagoda--that'll have to wait for another
day--but I'm partial to it as well. I thought you'd also appreciate
that little front-page backstory. ;)
> I think another day in the sun for the HMS Valhalla and HMS Indescribable,
> and then it will be time to send them off to the breakers, and build
> someting truly capital. Must drag out my books and start looking for
> something appropriately WWI from the Royal or Royal Australian navies. Not
> sure that Australia ever really had much in the way ships to threaten FdG,
> but there has got to be away to restore security in the Pacific. Actually,
> maybe the best idea is to go back to one of the original British aircraft
> carriers.
If you want to get technical, the battlecruiser _Australia_, of
the relatively unfortunate _Indefatigable_ class, was paid for by
Australia (just as _New Zealand_ was paid for by NZ), and was thus
placed at the disposal of Australia at the outbreak of war--this
especially so, given that Graf Spee was busily causing mayhem in
the Pacific at that time. _Australia_ was one of the very few
ships Spee really and truly feared, because he couldn't outrun
it *and* couldn't outfight it.
HMAS Australia was a pioneer in several ways--in 1917 she tested
a flying-off platform for large warships at sea, and she was also
IIRC the first "dreadnought" on permanent Imperial service. But
alas, the Washington naval treaty got her, and she was taken out
of service in 1921 and scuttled off Sydney in 1924, where the
remanants of her wreckage remains to this day.
So, there you go!
> My NLSO is already concerned about where the slips for this new ship will be
> located in the house....
Make direct comparisons between the size of the NLSO and the size
of the ship. They just *love* that.
best
LFB
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