Rufus Excalibur
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In 1966 the Royal Navy had,
Ark Royal - 50,000 tonnes
Eagle - 50,000 t
Victorious - 35,000
Hermes, Centaur, Albion, Bulwark all 28,000 tonnes
13 years earlier at the Fleet Review at the Coronation of QE2, the RN could boast nearly 20 Carriers and was still vast compared with every other navy on earth and second only to the USN. At the start of WW2 it was still the largest. What went wrong!!
The Royal Navy developed the Steam Catapult, Angled Deck and Mirrored Landing, yet by the Falklands in 1982, only Hermes and the Through Deck Cruiser Invincible were left.
Was this the biggest mistake in the History of the Royal Navy?
Ark Royal - 50,000 tonnes
Eagle - 50,000 t
Victorious - 35,000
Hermes, Centaur, Albion, Bulwark all 28,000 tonnes
13 years earlier at the Fleet Review at the Coronation of QE2, the RN could boast nearly 20 Carriers and was still vast compared with every other navy on earth and second only to the USN. At the start of WW2 it was still the largest. What went wrong!!
The Royal Navy developed the Steam Catapult, Angled Deck and Mirrored Landing, yet by the Falklands in 1982, only Hermes and the Through Deck Cruiser Invincible were left.
Was this the biggest mistake in the History of the Royal Navy?