The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the “as fitted” general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans ...
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Battlecruiser Repulse
Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans
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The True Stories of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day
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Operation OVERLORD, the opening up of an Allied second front by the invasion of the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944, was the largest military invasion of all time but it was preceded by years of industrial-scale intelligence collection and dangerous clandestine reconnaissance missions off ...
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