Willie,
A good assessment. While Lord Fisher was the proponent for "Fear God and
Dread Nought", it was Vittorio Cuniiberti who came up with the theory for
all-big-gun battleships. The US BBs of the Iowa class certainly had little
resemblance to the dreadnoughts of Fisher's era, especially in their guise
as manifold anti-aircraft platforms. Battlewagons such as Bismarck & Yamato
carried the design to it's zenith, perhaps. All proved to be vulnerable to
air power. Fisher would have wept that his grand capital ships would be
replaced by flat-top carriers!
An excellent book on these almost extinct machines of diplomacy & deterence
(and fear) is "Dreadnought" by Richard Hough.
While some on this list were tinkering with Morgans 20 odd years ago, I was
working on the restoration of a Korean war era McDonnell "Banshee" navy jet
fighter. In some respects a Morgan is more difficult.
Cheers,
Fred Kuzyk (long, long ago airman - Canadian Armed Forces)
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-----Original Message-----
From: William G. Lamb, III <lambroving@worldnet.att.net>
To: toad <toad@storm.ca>
Cc: LSelz@aol.com <LSelz@aol.com>; Dave.Vodden@uk.ecitele.com
<Dave.Vodden@uk.ecitele.com>; Stuart J. Ross <stuross@nac.net>;
morgans@autox.team.net <morgans@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Specs. please?
>
> My Lord, we are an old bunch! Jacky Fisher might have been the biggest
>proponent of H.M.S. Dreadnought, but it was Percy Scott who figured out
>how to get some use out of the thing, (Father of modern naval gunnery),
>and Admiral Lord Jellicoe, the only man capable of forfeiting W.W. I in
>a single battle, and made sufficient impression at Jutland, (no help from
>Beatty), turning a slight tactical defeat into a strategic victory, (the
>German
>Fleet never again dared sail again). The U.S.S. BB was not exactly based
>on contemporary Dreadnoughts. I vaguely recall reading that we were earlier
>in converting to oil due to the distances our Fleet needed to travel, and
we
>were first at eliminating casement guns which were a hold-over in the R.N..
>from wooden ships of the line, (as these had a rather limited field of
fire).
>
>W.G.L.,III (long, long ago U.S.N.)
>
>At 08:55 PM 4/21/99 -0400, toad wrote:
>>
>>And don't forget the American warship is still a Jackie Fisher design.
>>Who was Jackie Fisher?
>>Anybody know??
>>
>>Toad
>>
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