You refer to the 1938 Naval Expansion Program, but never mention it in the main body.
Added
Oil-fired or coal-fired?
Added, and I'll add it to the other 3
There's nothing to show that 50-caliber relates to /50 in the designations.
Navweaps (and presumably Campbell, but I don't have that handy at the moment) gives a barrel length of 50 calibers
No, I understand that, but I'm not sure that a uninitiated reader will understand that /50 means 50 caliber length. That's why I prefer not to use that format and actually spell out the caliber.--
Sturmvogel 66 (
talk)
15:40, 19 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Oh, I misunderstood your comment - I thought you were questioning the expansion of /50 in the 38cm gun title to 50-caliber. Fixed now.
Parsecboy (
talk)
15:44, 19 March 2014 (UTC)reply
to escorts for merchant convoys, which were desperately needed. Suggest moving the last clause in front of "escorts".
Ok.
How can a ship be beached and moored simultaneously?
The moored bit was left over from the old version - I apparently missed deleting it when I rewrote it.
You refer to the 1938 Naval Expansion Program, but never mention it in the main body.
Added
Oil-fired or coal-fired?
Added, and I'll add it to the other 3
There's nothing to show that 50-caliber relates to /50 in the designations.
Navweaps (and presumably Campbell, but I don't have that handy at the moment) gives a barrel length of 50 calibers
No, I understand that, but I'm not sure that a uninitiated reader will understand that /50 means 50 caliber length. That's why I prefer not to use that format and actually spell out the caliber.--
Sturmvogel 66 (
talk)
15:40, 19 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Oh, I misunderstood your comment - I thought you were questioning the expansion of /50 in the 38cm gun title to 50-caliber. Fixed now.
Parsecboy (
talk)
15:44, 19 March 2014 (UTC)reply
to escorts for merchant convoys, which were desperately needed. Suggest moving the last clause in front of "escorts".
Ok.
How can a ship be beached and moored simultaneously?
The moored bit was left over from the old version - I apparently missed deleting it when I rewrote it.