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In lugnet.build, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.build, Richard Parsons writes:
> >
> > 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.
Mmmm. Research is pointing in the same direction. Either HMAS Australia
(and let's not talk about the pushing and shoving with the New Zealand which
kept her out of Jutland - she may have suffered the same fate as
Indefatigable...), or perhaps HMS Furious in one of her many aircraft
oriented variations. Either way I get to keep at least two of my biplanes.
Got to check my (basically non-existent) stock of grey 2x2 rounds and grey
1x1 LFB railing clips before attempting a battlecruiser - its all a bit
academic without guns, and the crew have difficulty remaining crew without
railings, no?
Richard
Still baldly going...
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