As ever, I am concerned that the extreme cases will turn up in the command paper in the same way the ones Henry Leach was told not to be worried about appeared in Cmd 8288.
My understanding is St Albans (the newest hull) is on course to be available later this year (N_a_ B Am I correct?) leaving Argyll & Sutherland in refit, I do wonder if Montrose and Monmouth are the ones being referred to by Tusa's sources not the highlanders (couldn't resist).N_A_B, I did wonder if you were being a bit disingenuous about the Pompey dock wall: Daring and Dragon are in refit, Lancaster is the forward deployed ship, Iron Duck is just out of LIFEX, Argyll is in LIFEX and Westminster should be in LIFEX. I agree 59% availiblity is pretty good. Regarding the crewing I thought at least Lancaster of the T23s and some of the T45s have Port and Starboard crews (and two captains)?.
And we have discussed these two ad nauseam, Asturias you and I will have to agree to disagree about their usefulness.
