Trying to figure out which countries could actually handle the cost of light fleet carriers in 1946-60, so do we have any actual data at what prices the Colossus and Majestic class ships were sold by Britain in 1946-60? And for that matter how much their modernization with angled fight decks and...
1950s
aircraft carrier
armada de la república argentina
cold war
director ofnavalconstruction (royal navy)
directorateofnavalconstruction
early 1960s
great britain
indian navy
late 1940s
light fleet carrier
marine nationale
marinha do brasil
post-world war ii
royal australian navy
royal canadian navy
royal navy
royal netherlands navy
royal spanish navy
united states navy
Does anyone know anything more about this?
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/568598.html
Description
Scale 1:192. A plan showing the outboard profile and arrangement of rig of a proposed aircraft carrier/liner hybrid by Eustace H. T. D'Eyncourt [Director of Naval...
1920s
aircraft carrier
british commonwealth
british empire
director ofnavalconstruction (royal navy)
directorateofnavalconstruction
great britain
interwar period
ships taken up from trade
stuft
trade division (royal navy)
Hi, I searched the entire forum, but I did not find a thread about the Cultivator Number 6, a projected trenching machine; maybe it is well known to some of the readers, but I think it need a thread due to its particularity. Here the Cultivator as described by Winston Churchill in his book...
british army
department ofnaval land equipment
directorateofnavalconstruction
mine plough
ministry of supply
royal engineers
royal navy
united kingdom
white rabbit number six
world war ii
The Royal Navy's second 16" armed battleships history was a long and bumpy road of large number of designs and the inability on the Admiralty's side to actually start and continue it's work on them or choose a design to produce.
First I present the 1938 designs:
Design 14A-38
This is the first...
admiralty
battleships
director ofnavalconstruction (royal navy)
directorateofnavalconstruction
early 1930s
early 1940s
great britain
interwar period
pre-world war ii
royal navy
world war ii
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