Big bad battleships

[Simpo Two]

Stumbled on this site; masses of information for those interested in the development of battleships 1880-1920: http://www.cityofart.net/bship/finalproject.htm

[Hooli]

Looks good, that's an hour lost reading it

[IanMorewood]

I know its supposed to represent armour plate but the background and the bad English make that a pain to read, fascinating subject matter though.

[Simpo Two]

True, I'd much prefer it as a book. Interactivity is great but you end up missing vast chunks.

I particularly like the French/Russian pre-dreadnoughts.

And so many battles we never hear about, eg the Russo-Japanese war and Spain v America: www.cityofart.net/bship/santiago_walter_millis.htm...


ETA: After much deliberate searching for the homepage, with no luck, I think I just found it: http://www.cityofart.net/bship/site_nav.html#welco...

website said:

'Who Writes This Stuff, Anyway?'

The Armchair Admiral, author of the BigBadBattleships[TM] WebsiteBy popular demand, we announce for the first time the identity of the author of this website -- the armchair admiral responsible for content and vision at BigBadBattleships.com. He now stands revealed as none other than the Rt. Hon. Sir Percival Poppycock, KCIE, Vice Commodore of the Royal Tasmanian Yacht Squadron and lifelong maritime history buff. Sir Percy (as he's known at the polo grounds) sports a history degree from Vassar College and is intimately familiar with life at sea. A recognized expert on practically everything, he is eminently qualified to pass judgment on virtually any naval, socioeconomic, or political development of the last millennium. "It's all been downhill since 1912," he said famously in his address to 500 of the nation's historiographic élite at the swank Olympic Hotel in Seattle. The subject of his presentation: the sinking of the Titanic which first tried his faith in man's works. Sir Percival holds 14 decorations from eight nations, including Knight Commander of the Indian Empire (U.K.) and the Order of the Pixellated Star (Fallopia). A long-time Oxonian, the extroverted baronet is a member of the Royal Cowes Yacht Squadron, the Pola Polo Club, the Commonwealth Club, the Reform Club, and the Hasty Pudding Club. A decorated veteran of the Falklands War (in which he dropped a half-dozen Exocet missiles from flight using only his service revolver), he holds the rank of LT CDR in the Royal Tasmanian Naval Reserve.

Edited by Simpo Two on Thursday 20th June 23:54