RE: Big guns on small ships

Additionally in WWI the British light cruiser Audacious was fitted with
15" guns and was planned to have an 18"(yes...18") before it was changed
and turned into the first air craft carrier.Granted there was less
difference in size between a light cruiser and dreadnought in those
days.

David Best

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>From:	Mikko Kurki-Suonio[SMTP:maxxon@swob.dna.fi]
>Sent:	Tuesday, December 16, 1997 9:40 AM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Big guns on small ships
>
>On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Tim Jones wrote:
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>> I'd be interested as an aside which ships these were.
>
>A couple of coastal monitors, mostly used for gunnery training,
>and possibly shore bombardment. Certainly never saw any surface combat 
>worthy of note. They weren't called coastal for nothing either,
>I don't think they were all that seaworthy. Slow as hell, certainly.
>
>A couple of monitors saw combat in WWI, if you count bombarding
>a holed-up-in-river-delta german cruiser.
>
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