The Battle Cruiser in the Royal Navy

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In July, 1904, he wrote that, "All are agreed that battleships must for the present be continued, and that their characteristic features, distinguishing them from armoured cruisers, are more powerful guns and more armour."[1] In papers presented to the Earl of Selborne in October, he wrote, "At the present moment naval experience is not sufficiently ripe to abolish totally the building of battleships so long as other countries do not do so." Selborne commented, "Indeed not! The battleship is essential, just as much as 100 years ago. Ask the Japs."[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Quoted in Fisher Papers. II. p. 28.
  2. ↑ Quoted in Fisher Papers. II. p. 41.

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