Ancestors

Written by Richard Welty on 2024-12-28 at 12:10

taking advantage of our extended trip to Durham NC for the holidays; today i'm making the run to the coast to visit the Battleship North Carolina. will post a few pics later today. 1/

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Written by SK53 on 2024-12-28 at 15:33

@nfgusedautoparts Will have to see if I can find mine from 1973! Regret not going to Battleship Cove 25 years ago.

The new NAM Rodger book "The Price of Victory" is very good on the Naval Treaties.

OTOH they left us with a splendid collection of might-have beens : 7-stack Lexingtons, the first South Dakotas, and sundry British designs (G3, etc.)

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Written by Richard Welty on 2024-12-28 at 21:58

@SK53 will look this book up. I know a little about the period but not nearly enough.

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Written by Richard Welty on 2024-12-28 at 22:08

I see this will also cover HMS Dreadnought and Jackie Fischer too, so bonus!

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Toot

Written by SK53 on 2024-12-28 at 23:08

@nfgusedautoparts Lots of interesting re-evaluations, often high-level, but clearly based on deep research (it's been 25 years since the previous volume, he had a serious illness). Still working my way through the references to see what I ought to read.

Robert Massie's two books are an entertaining popular history of the Dreadnought period.

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Descendants

Written by Richard Welty on 2024-12-29 at 00:51

@SK53 currently working my way through The Rules of the Game which has been very instructive about Jutland.

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Written by SK53 on 2024-12-29 at 02:23

@nfgusedautoparts absolutely fantastic book, completely restarted my interest. Must have bought it 25 years ago : from was a specialist remaindered bookshop in the local town.

Has everything from deep-seated organisational issues through to a detailed account of the action. There's a bit about ships chronometer not being synchronised which I used to include if talking about #OpenHistoricalMap

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Written by Richard Welty on 2024-12-29 at 02:29

@SK53 i'm enjoying Gibson's research, precision and care. it's a very nice work. have not gotten to the stuff on chronometers yet, but i've seen at least one discussion of the first night of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal that dives into chronometer synchronization issues.

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