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"General Discussions" is often a loose cannon in many forums. I wouldn't miss it.

I'm just saying that the rigging and unrigging of torpedo nets wouldn't have been a challenge. This would have been done in port, and not 100 feet in the air.

Culverin, remember the complexity just a few years earlier:
(This is just a frigate.)

HMS Dreadnought.

Another breadcrumb: Merchant Marine Act of 1936.

The attic makes me sneeze.

Now I'm delving into dusty corners. IIRC tankers that received government subsidies were supposed to be able to refuel USN and Coast Guard ships. This was, again from memory, just a matter of having appropriate couplings and hoses. As the tankers weren't usually expected to refuel warships they were...

The OBBs were used at floating tankage at Espiritu Santu while the new BBs were waltzing around the Solomons. From memory. :stubborn: There was nothing to stop a tanker from refueling other ships in port, that was basically what yard oilers did from the first days of oil-burners. More may be found h...

You might investigate the Bluejacket's Manuals for this period, something useful may be found there.

I think the salient factor with these ''what ifs'' is that in 1945 the USA develops the atom bomb. The remaining question is against which enemy it is deployed against first. Germany was the first target planned. The NSA bomb docs make that clear. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm

You might visit here: https://forum.axishistory.com/viewforum.php?f=65

Alberto Virtuani wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:29 pm

Many thanks !

Alberto

Do we accept that information? I'm asking the pros here.

I've been onboard Mikasa, but not as a student. Wasted chances...

Certainly, would have been polite to do so from the start.

https://warship-mikasa.blogspot.com/201 ... r-ijn.html

Sorry if this is redundant, but are those torpedo net booms on Mikasa?

First one is a USN battleship, probably one of those rebuilt after Pearl Harbor, possibly USS New Mexico. The second is USS Lexington or Saratoga, battlecruisers converted to aircraft carriers via the Washington Naval Limitations Treaty. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/e4/be/1be4bef25610a8b032a21f...

Pros and cons frequently debated. RN armored flight decks protected the hangar decks beneath. AND we would have had two carriers instead of three at Midway if the USN used the same system.