[WWI] J.R.'s Dreadnought Review

[Douglas Anderson]

Yes, but that was where Jackie Fishers vision fell short; in his haste to build s superior navy, Britain fell short of the Germans, not only in quantity of Battleships, but also in quality. Many of the RN ships lost at Jutland could've been saved in they had magazine flooding, something that the Germans had and Britain criminially (and I do put this term in here to emphasize how stupid their decision was) neglected. And when the shortfall in battleship numbers was finally realised, Jack Fisher and Churchill made the horribley idiotic decision to use battlecruisers in the line.
  Both Jackie Fisher and Churchill may well have been a visionaies, but their decisions during the war cost many a sailor his life.

dave fleming <dave.fleming2 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
  Quoting Douglas Anderson :
> I have read "Castles of Steel" and have to agree with Mr. Boyes' comments
> as this book is truly fascinating. The one thing that does come through is
> how short-sighted the British were in both deployment and developement, and
> the debacle of the battle-cruiser. I suppose one could say that the pinacle
> of that stupidity was the Hood. 

The Battlecrusier concept was fine when kept at it's original idea - hunting & outgunning cruiser-sized units. It 
was when the started using them to hunt Battleshipd that it failed.

Mind you, most were ratrher attractive looking ships.
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