On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

The naval treaties of the 20s and 30s were . . . terrible for UK's ship builders, especially those specialising in large military vessels, as demand dried up completely.

Maybe they should have gotten into bed with Standard Oil and started building supertankers a few decades early?

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