ThinksMarkedly wrote:Theemile wrote:At that point in the Story line, the only RMN SDs were Samothrace, Sphinx or Gryphon Classes. And Samothrace's are flagships - and old SDs - just the type to be assigned to Honor's Marsh Fleet, along with the 11 remaining Dreadnaughts in service.
I think we identified a 4th Samothrace!
Wait, what happened to the King William, Anduril and Victory classes there? That's 25+14+36 ships, all less than 30 years old by the time the first war started. It's already unlikely any of them were decommissioned, much less
all of them, as we've seen the RMN had decommissioned only 3 DNs at all by the time of the war.
My post on SD and DN on the "discrepancy" thread
Between the wars, all 34 surviving Victories were sold at scrap prices to Grayson, along with 17 of the 18 Duquesnes and 3 Havens the RMN had pressed into service after their captures. Grayson just put them in their reserves "IN case" something happened. After the 2nd war started, they, along with the RMn reserves were manned by RMN personnel, though the Grayson bought ships stayed officially in the Grayson Navy.
The remaining King Williams class and Anduril class was sold to Erewhon and other alliance members, or broken up prior to the start of the 2nd war in fall 1919pd. Don't forget, these ships were on the small side and had run the entire length of the war. If my numbers are correct, somewhere between 25 and 40 % of the classes had been destroyed, in comparison with 1/18 for the Victory, Samothrace, Sphinx and Gryphon classes combined. - The Samothrace can only be bundled because we don't have separate loss #s of the class, but there were only 12 losses of Samothrace, Sphinx and Gryphons prior to the March 1st 1920 pd fleet chart (237 Constructed in HoS/225 Survivors on the Fleet chart)
Actually, by 1919, The RMN had retired all the Ad Astra, Royal Wintons, Majestic and Nouveau Paris DNs and sent them to the breakers. Only 11 DNs remained in service for Honor to take them to Marsh - the remaining Gladiators and Majestics had been sent into the reserve, where the last 6 Majestics from Marsh supposededly followed in 1921.
All this was discussed in War of Honor, and more fully in HoS.