sounds like a tiny floating fortress. obviously not against a battleship, but not something i'd like to meet on the Thames.
The Oxford vs Cambridge University Boat Races are going to be a challenge from now on, you can bet.
sounds like a tiny floating fortress. obviously not against a battleship, but not something i'd like to meet on the Thames.
The Oxford vs Cambridge University Boat Races are going to be a challenge from now on, you can bet.
Dang, I'd love to join with my gunboat.
A small question that has been bugging me though, trek. The thing in you have on top of the deck of your ship, right in front of the bridge, is that somesort of a torpedo tube? But, you didn't mention torpedoes in your armaments, so I'm a bit confused.
Fire director for the guns, so that they can find the range and hit.
Ahhh, nice, though I didn't expect that on a gunboat with a displacement of <1000 tons? Ohh, well, then I suggest you adding some torpedo tubes on your gunboat then.
Slowly catching up, just finished Chapter 119, and I have to say this;
Fuller? Head of the Royal Armoured Corps!? Possibly a fine appointment, but only if it was 1920 not 1940. Quite aside from being a senior BUF member and worryingly obsessed by the occult he was hated by most of army (justifiably so) for being an utter arse. Even ignoring all that by the late 1920s he'd burnt out all his decent ideas and was churning out rubbish about the philosophical and mystical basis of warfare.
To mangle a well known phrase 'General Fuller was a visionary man. He died in 1927'
Slowly catching up, just finished Chapter 119, and I have to say this;
Fuller? Head of the Royal Armoured Corps!? Possibly a fine appointment, but only if it was 1920 not 1940. Quite aside from being a senior BUF member and worryingly obsessed by the occult he was hated by most of army (justifiably so) for being an utter arse. Even ignoring all that by the late 1920s he'd burnt out all his decent ideas and was churning out rubbish about the philosophical and mystical basis of warfare.
To mangle a well known phrase 'General Fuller was a visionary man. He died in 1927'
Ominous. Remember; What is right for the Navy (and Pip) is right for the Empire.El Pip, you may not like them, but rest assured that the Admiralty will stay a factor.
Ominous. Remember; What is right for the Navy (and Pip) is right for the Empire.
Well as long as the priorities are maintained it can't be all bad.It is right for the Navy. Not so much for the RAF and the Army though.
Right all caught up. Singapore is looking Slimtastic, though as you know that wasn't a complete surprise. Ian seeing ghosts could go either very well, or very badly. I hope for the former but fear the latter. Finally the Thames-class gunboats look spiffing and I am intensely looking forward to more Swordfish action.