From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 20:42:54 PDT
--- "Mil-Veh Co." <milveh@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On the whole, I think the UK turned out the most
> ingenious designs over the longest period than any
> other country since the 1700's.
>
> The British practically invented modern Naval
> warfare
> tactics, remember Nelson and the ships of the line?
> England's "HMS Dreadnought" made every other
> battleship of the time obsolete due to her
> firepower,
> armour and speed, that was around 1900.
++++++++++
Also consider the USS Washington, the French
Rochambeau, and the German Graf Spee.
joe
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