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  1. bintananth

    If Britain would have avoided confiscating the two Ottoman dreadnoughts, would the Ottomans have still entered WWI on the CP side?

    They got two brand-new modern helicopter carriers the French government didn't want the Russians to have which the Marine nationale didn't need off of the clearance rack.
  2. bintananth

    If Britain would have avoided confiscating the two Ottoman dreadnoughts, would the Ottomans have still entered WWI on the CP side?

    In 2014-2015 France did that to Russia with a pair of Mistral-class ships Russia ordered. End result: the Russians got a refund followed by the French selling the ships to Egypt.
  3. bintananth

    If Britain would have avoided confiscating the two Ottoman dreadnoughts, would the Ottomans have still entered WWI on the CP side?

    Yes. Most warships aren't built in government owned shipyards. This has been true for quite some time and still is. Buying a brand new battleship built to your specs back then was sorta analagous to having a custom mansion built today: a whole lot of stuff needs to be outsourced. With those...
  4. bintananth

    If Britain would have avoided confiscating the two Ottoman dreadnoughts, would the Ottomans have still entered WWI on the CP side?

    The four dreadnoughts the British seized from Chile and the Ottoman Empire: - HMS Canada: 10x14" and returned to Chile after the WWI. Decomissioned in 1958 and sold for scrap in 1959. - HMS Eagle: completed as an aircraft carrier and retained by Britain. Sunk 11 August 1942. - HMS Erin...
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