Speed and armour: Fisher’s battlecruisers vs Admiralty politics

In 1919 the embittered Admiral Sir John Fisher, former First Sea Lord and the long-standing champion of naval technology, summed up his recent thinking about heavy warships in three words: ‘speed is armour’.[1] The phrase has since been inextricably associated with his ideas throughout the dreadnought era, skewing the way we see the evolution of [ ] The post Speed and armour: Fisher’s…