Eggshells and hammers: Fisher’s last battlecruisers

In 1919 an embittered Admiral Sir John Fisher published a trenchant criticism of the British Admiralty’s latest heavy warship. He did not name her, but he didn’t have to: there was only one. To Fisher, HMS Hood had too much weight devoted to armour. ‘And so bang went the speed,’ he declared. ‘They couldn’t understand [ ] The post Eggshells and hammers: Fisher’s last battlecruisers appeared first…