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Not a boffin
and the pitifully poor productivity of the Clyde especially and Rosyth
Yep, a disaster zone, yet if I remember right a Labour govt ordered the carriers to give work to its voters. And look at the time and money wasted on the Hebridean ferries. I thought that even the beancounters might have known that large naval vessels need an escort group especially when sent east, but maybe they never heard of Prince of Wales and Repulse ...