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 Topic: How does the retired list versus active list work |
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| Harley Replies: 2 Views: 9013 |
 Forum: Discussion Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:33 am Subject: How does the retired list versus active list work |
| It depends what rank we're talking about. For retired flag officers it was about seniority where applicable. For ranks below Rear-Admiral I'm not sure, as they were by selection on the Active List, so ... | |
| Topic: HMS Hercules. |
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| Harley Replies: 3 Views: 12625 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 3:14 am Subject: HMS Hercules. |
| If you go to http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search and search for Hercules, then filter by Media/Images, quite a few pictures of Hercules come up.
Simon |
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| Topic: Gunlayers tests 1911, 1912 scanned and available. |
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| Harley Replies: 2 Views: 12272 |
Forum: Manuals and Handbooks Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:17 pm Subject: Gunlayers tests 1911, 1912 scanned and available. |
| You should already have them, Tone, in the stuff I gave you, from 1904 to 1914. | |
| Topic: ...an Admiralty without Winston??? |
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| Harley Replies: 5 Views: 16631 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:19 pm Subject: ...an Admiralty without Winston??? |
| In 1910 Fisher was within months of being automatically retired on account of age anyway.
Simon |
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| Topic: Back to the task |
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| Harley Replies: 23 Views: 40709 |
Forum: Simulation Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:57 am Subject: Back to the task |
| The word "Yay" comes to mind.
Simon |
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| Topic: U S Armored Cruisers - A Design and Operational History |
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| Harley Replies: 2 Views: 10282 |
Forum: Modeling Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:53 pm Subject: U S Armored Cruisers - A Design and Operational History |
| Interesting. Thanks, Jim! | |
| Topic: Ooh it's quiet here |
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| Harley Replies: 8 Views: 19183 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:46 am Subject: Ooh it's quiet here |
| Alas, we're all busy with our own things! | |
| Topic: Peter Padfield reviews Norman Friedmans fire control book... |
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| Harley Replies: 11 Views: 26074 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:37 pm Subject: Peter Padfield reviews Norman Friedmans fire control book... |
| I always thought Holy Grail was easily the best of the Python films, special though the following two were.
S: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! ... |
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| Topic: Peter Padfield reviews Norman Friedmans fire control book... |
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| Harley Replies: 11 Views: 26074 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:38 pm Subject: Peter Padfield reviews Norman Friedmans fire control book... |
| It was Jon Sumida who first suggested that the Royal Navy before the first world war conceived a tactic designed to lure the German High Seas Fleet into its own preferred medium-to-short range, there ... | |
| Topic: US Navy ships boats drawings needed |
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| Harley Replies: 10 Views: 20711 |
Forum: Modeling Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:55 pm Subject: US Navy ships boats drawings needed |
| I don't know a source off-hand, but what era and for what class of ships are you looking for ships' boats?
Simon |
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| Topic: Cost of the Director Systems |
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| Harley Replies: 15 Views: 40022 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:12 pm Subject: Cost of the Director Systems |
| I realise that this was a draft of your paper. I could comment on all of it, but I will confine my comments to page 5 as an example:
Page 5. “The under-armoured British battle cruisers also pro ... |
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| Topic: Cost of the Director Systems |
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| Harley Replies: 15 Views: 40022 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:36 am Subject: Cost of the Director Systems |
| I would be extremely interested in looking at a draft of your work, please.
Simon |
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| Topic: Cost of the Director Systems |
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| Harley Replies: 15 Views: 40022 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:12 pm Subject: Re: Cost of the Director Systems |
| Hi all,
This information is going to be used as part of an argument against the volume of Dreadnoughts and battle cruisers being brought vs the possiblility of using money from just one being cancell ... |
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| Topic: U-boats at Jutland |
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| Harley Replies: 7 Views: 21596 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:07 pm Subject: U-boats at Jutland |
| Are you sure about 5 days? Scheer ordered ten submarines out to find and attack British warships from 17-22 May, then ordered them to stations off the British coast where they were to remain until 1 ... | |
| Topic: U-boats at Jutland |
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| Harley Replies: 7 Views: 21596 |
Forum: Discussion Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:08 am Subject: U-boats at Jutland |
| Here's something I'd been working on earlier this month anyway.
At 0100 on 31 May Hipper's force of I and II Scouting Groups, and II, VI and IX Flotillas, left the outer Jade Roads. Scheer put to s ... |
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