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In lugnet.build, Richard Parsons writes:
> 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...),
Heh. I forgot about that when I wrote this--Australia's only
capital ship, NZ's only capital ship, millions of square miles
of ocean, and *bump*.
Fortunately, the design flaw had nothing to do with the side
protection...
> or perhaps HMS Furious in one of her many aircraft
> oriented variations. Either way I get to keep at least two of my biplanes.
Or _Courageous_ or _Glorious_...or would they be HMS
_Curious_, _Spurious_, and _Outrageous_? :)
> 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?
I don't know, I think your carrier railings are really quite nice.
They certainly look better, but granted, that becomes immaterial if
you start negotiating curves.
BTW, interesting site on ship naming:
http://www.downport.com/freelancetraveller/features/shipyard/naming.html
Found en passant.
best
LFB
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