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[...] The search for a rationale within the Couragous design itself assumes the existing of such rationale. Matching a 7-inch barbet with a 3-inch belt, putting battleship guns on a ship armored against light cruiser shells, providing high speed to a ship with no place to go - the possibility exists that the decision was irrational, a monster slipping through the disconnect between an admiral's fantasy and the realities of naval combat. [...] The design had what he wanted, even if he had no valid reason to want it, and no one in the Admiralty showed the inclination to stop him. For Fisher, the ships of the Couragous class were their own justification, sparing him an unpleasant question: Is 19,000 tons of useless ship so far superior to 0 tons of useful ship as to justify the expenditure?"
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Originally posted by HoOmAn
You also mentioned your interest in writing a source book on the Dutch, French and Italian navies. Especially the Dutch book would interest me a lot. Any progress on these? Have you even started?
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