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    In 1953 I must have been like the ever questioning youngster always looking for answers. In 1953 Britain had a not to be sneezed at Naval fleet of warships , plus of course a huge mercantile merchant fleet . One of my query’s to the older Salts was how and who judges how large that naval fleet was to be. ? Invariably the answer was for every so many merchant ships there had to be a warship. E.g. for every 10 merchant vessels there. Had to be a warship of a certain description, that was the rough reply to the question I used to get, the finer points not being stated as probably no one knew. This today if true would be a good get out of gaol card fort the MOD .Does anyone have any ideas or disclaims that this ready made answer was true or not ? JS
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    John, I do recall reading something along those lines many years ago.
    But it would appear those in charge did not or made other arangements, it never happened.
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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    In 1953 I must have been like the ever questioning youngster always looking for answers. In 1953 Britain had a not to be sneezed at Naval fleet of warships , plus of course a huge mercantile merchant fleet . One of my query’s to the older Salts was how and who judges how large that naval fleet was to be. ? Invariably the answer was for every so many merchant ships there had to be a warship. E.g. for every 10 merchant vessels there. Had to be a warship of a certain description, that was the rough reply to the question I used to get, the finer points not being stated as probably no one knew. This today if true would be a good get out of gaol card fort the MOD .Does anyone have any ideas or disclaims that this ready made answer was true or not ? JS
    In 1889 the Naval Defence Act formally adopted the "two power standard" where we would have twice as many battleships as the next two navies combined including supporting ships. No mention of reference to the merchant fleet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    In 1953 I must have been like the ever questioning youngster always looking for answers. In 1953 Britain had a not to be sneezed at Naval fleet of warships , plus of course a huge mercantile merchant fleet . One of my query’s to the older Salts was how and who judges how large that naval fleet was to be. ? Invariably the answer was for every so many merchant ships there had to be a warship. E.g. for every 10 merchant vessels there. Had to be a warship of a certain description, that was the rough reply to the question I used to get, the finer points not being stated as probably no one knew. This today if true would be a good get out of gaol card fort the MOD .Does anyone have any ideas or disclaims that this ready made answer was true or not ? JS
    I remember reading somewhere that P&O had to fund the building of a warship for every 100 vessels in their fleet. Don't know if this is true or applied to other companies

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    Problem now for UK and other nations, their fleet of war ships is no where near big enough to defend the country.
    Oh well. go and ask the yanks for a hand if needed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz View Post
    Oh well. go and ask the yanks for a hand if needed.
    That won't work John, they are something like a 160 vessels short in their requirement fleet, in fact they are now registering Maersk vessels in the USA so that in emergencies they can be inducted into the MSC (Military Sealift Command) the equivalent of our RFA

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    Suspect the way to go is not surface ships. I would think one nuke Sub could do more damage than a handful of surface ships.
    The USA have 11 Aircraft carriers carrying upto 80 fighters each. Even the US navy admit they are vulnerable to attack from Subs.
    We have 2 Aircraft carriers, less said about those white elephants the better.

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    I also heard that for every Hundred ships the British Tanker Co built they had to pay to build a warship, but if that was the case for building the British Naval ships there wouldn't be any built today, not that it matters anymore they have nothing to defend LoL.
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    Ivan, thank you for that bit of info, gives us all a feeling of WTF do we do now??
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    Quote Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz View Post
    Ivan, thank you for that bit of info, gives us all a feeling of WTF do we do now??
    you're welcome! Do what you're doing now John, lay back! dream of sex! and think of England!

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