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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: WWII Battleships
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- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:50:47 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Richard H. Miller writes:
- #> Alaska (2), 34K/10K, 33kt, 9x12" guns arranged as above.
- #
- #These were never considered to be battleships (or even a battlecruser). The
- #Alaska class has always been considered to be large cruisers. Their type
- #designation was CB rather than BB or BC.
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- Actually "CB" for battle cruiser is consistent with USN cruiser nomenclature:
- "CL" for light cruisers and "CA" for heavy [formerly armored] cruisers.
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- I always felt that the ALASKAs were too big and too well armored to be
- considered merely heavy cruisers unencumbered by Washington Treaty limits
- on displacement and armament. IMHO the German Panzerschiffe qualified as
- "post-Washington" heavy cruisers because their gun size and displacement
- exceeded treaty limits while their speed and [lack of] armor was decidedly
- cruiser-like.
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- The ALASKAs are most comparable to SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU: well-balanced
- ships with meaningful armor, but with gun size from earlier generations.
- To bring back a pre-dreadnought nomenclature convention: Second Class
- Battle Cruisers?
-
- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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