[Homer_J_Simpson]

First Lord to Controller and others 3.XII.39

(Secret.)

I was much interested in D.C.N.S.’s remark about the possibility of making a new battleship with the four spare 15-inch-gun turrets. Such a vessel would be of the battleship-cruiser type, heavily armoured and absolutely proof against air attack. Pray let me have a legend, with estimates in money and time. This ship could come in after the K.G.V. batch are finished and before Temeraire and Lion.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Defense Line Firm – 2-3
Incidents in European Conflict – 3
A New Czech Army Mobilized in France – 3
Rout of Russians Reported in North – 4-5
The International Situation – 4

News of the Week in Review

International Summary – 6-10
In Finland the Soviets Reveal Their Real Aims – 11-12
Developments Since September 1 (Map) – 13

[henkster]

“I was much interested in D.C.N.S.’s remark about the possibility of making a new battleship with the four spare 15-inch-gun turrets. Such a vessel would be of the battleship-cruiser type, heavily armoured and absolutely proof against air attack. Pray let me have a legend, with estimates in money and time. This ship could come in after the K.G.V. batch are finished and before Temeraire and Lion.”

She will be completed in November 1944, and christened HMS Vanguard, the last dreadnought built by the nation that invented them, and one of the last built, ever. She never saw action.