The World of Fight And Be Right by Ed Thomas

Author:Ed Thomas [Thomas, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RO:SF
Publisher: Sea Lion Press
Published: 2015-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

HMAS CAPETOWN

Originally laid down as HMS Swiftsure, the lead ship of her class, Cape Town is perhaps the purest distillation of the theories behind the Juggernaut, the ship that has dominated the seaways of the early twentieth century.

Fast, aggressive and fragile, the Juggernaut is designed to be equally at home sowing havoc amongst enemy convoys and hunting enemy commerce raiders. While it would be horribly vulnerable if forced into battle on even terms, it can successfully chase and outgun any individual enemy cruiser, and can panic and disrupt a convoy to the point where individual ships are vulnerable to waiting submarines.

Juggernauts normally hunt in packs, and although their losses at the hands of naval aircraft during the Great War showed that their heyday is over, they are still prized assets. As such, South Africa's 'acquisition' of HMS Swfitsure in 1938 thanks to some quick-thinking, mutinous junior former Royal Naval Officers was a major coup for the Blue movement in the African theatre, and contributed greatly to the liberation of Mombasa and Zanzibar that July.

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