Battleships and costs

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HMS Sophia
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Re: Battleships and costs

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Simon_Jester wrote:The cost issue may be relatively incidental to his actual research and to the bulk of the thesis- as you say, the main issue is it just not working.
It is incidental. Its one part of one of my chapters, but it's also the one that's giving me the most faff in terms of finding information.
I'm mainly comparing the roles and capabilities of battleships and aircraft carriers (the research for which is going much better)...
because you are not looking at many published sources existing on this, original research at the archives does not seem to be in your plans
Sorry seaskimmer, have I not told you my exact plans for the next couple of months? I mean hell, it's not like I'm forming plans to head down to London in the next month or so. Or, maybe i'm actually going to be able to get to my library in the next couple of weeks. :?
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Re: Battleships and costs

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barnest2 wrote:
Simon_Jester wrote:The cost issue may be relatively incidental to his actual research and to the bulk of the thesis- as you say, the main issue is it just not working.
It is incidental. Its one part of one of my chapters, but it's also the one that's giving me the most faff in terms of finding information.
I'm mainly comparing the roles and capabilities of battleships and aircraft carriers (the research for which is going much better)...
because you are not looking at many published sources existing on this, original research at the archives does not seem to be in your plans
Sorry seaskimmer, have I not told you my exact plans for the next couple of months? I mean hell, it's not like I'm forming plans to head down to London in the next month or so. Or, maybe i'm actually going to be able to get to my library in the next couple of weeks. :?
When I did my undergrad dissertation on battlecruisers in naval history including whether they deserved their eggshells with hammers rep, the primary sources I consulted were at PRO and National Maritime Museum in London, and Churchill's College in Cambridge for Jackie Fisher's papers. Granted nothing that one couldn't get from Marder's or Sumida's but there's nothing like looking at the real stuff. Actually saw a back of an envelope drawing and specs in Fisher's papers on something that looked more like a fast BB (or maybe something that would be the basis of the inter-war G3 design) rather than Refit and Repair or the Wierd Sisters.
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