Recent content by tofer

Good work. Been absent for a while and just caught up. Sounds like both sides managed to impale themselves on the other’s guns.

Good point, well presented.

I'd like to think it's because we are more civilised now, having learned from the mistakes we made and crimes we committed in the past.

Rainbow was also 130 men under her full crew capacity so additional space in mess decks. They could crowd people in for a few hours at least.

I've joined this party late and am enjoying it so far, but why did you have to kill Arthur C. Clarke?

Good work NOMISYRRUC.

Also if you are thinking that the sinking without huge loss of life would still lead to safety improvements then you're likely to be disappointed. It would probably be treated like the Republic sinking and show that the ships sink slowly enough for help to arrive.

Standard practice at the time.

Forget the radio, even if it's fixed they can't get help to them any quicker, Carpathia is coming as fast as she can and Californian has turned her set off. Maybe she could go alongside and take passengers off. About the only thing she can do is act as a refuge until other ships arrive.

You are right, I think, provided there is sufficient supply of money to meet needs.

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To be honest if you are talking about this immediately post war the Dominions have only been sovereign nations since 1931-ish so they would likely see attempts to create a Commonwealth Federation as Britain trying to get power back over them.

But would they? Given the heavy loss of life and shipping losses would the UK public say stop getting our boys killed for some unknown islands or would the blood be up and it be vengeance at any cost? Could Britain bring enough diplomatic pressure to bear to put the financial pressure on Argentina?

I would have thought that pilots capable of riveting the ships with cannon fire would have been able to hit them with rockets.

I have a feeling that the postwar British government would have problems backing a new currency and that shifting everyone onto Sterling would lead to a devaluation.