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 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Hawkins Class What If's

tigercat
 Post subject: Re: Hawkins Class What If's Posted: April 28th, 2012, 5:58 pm 

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I see that some consideration was put into fitting them with 8 inch turrets but the cost and delays to new 8 inch cruisers was too much

 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Hawkins Class What If's

tigercat
 Post subject: Re: Hawkins Class What If's Posted: April 11th, 2012, 11:34 am 

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Thanks for the considered responses. My initial though was that if the guns were avaialble what to do with them. But if the ammo was too heavy and the rate of fire too slow then they are definitely not suited to cruisers. Plus if you have a cruiser with 9.2 in guns some bright spark is bound to send...

 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Hawkins Class What If's

tigercat
 Post subject: Hawkins Class What If's Posted: April 9th, 2012, 11:41 pm 

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Hi All, I was looking at the brilliant pictures of the Hawkins class on here and thinking about some possible What If's The 7.5 inch were a bit of an anomaly in RN service and therefore the logistics of supporting this one class of ships must have been a pain. So what to do with them ? I was looking...

 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Ship naming conventions of the world.

tigercat
 Post subject: Re: Ship naming conventions of the world. Posted: April 9th, 2012, 5:10 pm 

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I have British Warship Names by Manning and Walker which despite being from 1959 is very interesting as it lists all ship names used by the RN alongside details of the ships they were attached to and includes such gems as HMS Spanker - Floating Battery of 1794 and Minesweeper of 1943 HMS Blonde orig...
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