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Renown Recast as Fast Battlecruiser

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914

John Arbuthnot Fisher1914

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Fisher redirects the Renown design toward a very fast oil-burning battlecruiser suited to his northern offensive ideas.

Names involved

John Arbuthnot Fisher

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