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Come on - the UK’s ability to put anything in the water was much less than the fantasy the Admiralty ordered. That effort was manifestly better spent on carriers - look how the light fleets were so much more useful than yet more 6” cruisers.Plus, if you read the detail, it was the latter armoured carriers / what became Eagle/Ark Royal that 1SL wanted to cancel to progress those 2 BB. That at least was recognised as madness.If we’d put the effort from Vanguard into a 35k fleet carrier that ship would have served to the late 70s as the centrepiece of the RN and set the standard for the 50s and 60s.As it was, we got the world’s (history’s?) most expensive Royal Yacht. You couldn’t have written a more illuminating way to show the failure to see what was in front of then.
Come on - the UK’s ability to put anything in the water was much less than the fantasy the Admiralty ordered. That effort was manifestly better spent on carriers - look how the light fleets were so much more useful than yet more 6” cruisers.
Plus, if you read the detail, it was the latter armoured carriers / what became Eagle/Ark Royal that 1SL wanted to cancel to progress those 2 BB. That at least was recognised as madness.
If we’d put the effort from Vanguard into a 35k fleet carrier that ship would have served to the late 70s as the centrepiece of the RN and set the standard for the 50s and 60s.
As it was, we got the world’s (history’s?) most expensive Royal Yacht. You couldn’t have written a more illuminating way to show the failure to see what was in front of then.
