THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
Hello Doug.
Thank you for attaching other images and for the links, which contain the texts.
I took the information from a tome printed in 1995 but I always forget to do the research on the internet in English instead of Italian. The results are very different.
You have interrogated the topic with many other interesting information.
I also have to thank you for this sentence you wrote:
"I can find no record of 'a disaster' on the return trip from Calais."
If you hadn't done it, I wouldn't have realized I'd created a misunderstanding and others might have misinterpreted what I meant.
Sometimes, in Italian we use the same terms in the "strict sense" or in the "broad sense".
For example, if a person asks me: "So how was your holiday?", if I reply "forget it, it was a real disaster", perhaps because the flights were delayed, I ate badly, the weather was terrible . In this case the term disaster is in a broad sense
For example, if a person asks me: "So how was the trip to Sardinia?", if I reply "forget it, it was a real disaster", perhaps because I vomited the whole trip. In this case the term disaster is in a broad sense.
If, however, there was an accident on the highway with five vehicles involved, with deaths and injuries, I say it was a disaster using the word in the strict sense.
For the Bessmer I didn't use the term "disaster" in the strict sense, but this was obvious only to me. I must admit that I took an interpretation for granted that could instead be misleading.
Anyway, I'm glad you allowed me to clarify.
Aside from this semantic digression, in your opinion why a similar system didn't work then and most likely wouldn't work today either?
In my opinion because the internal group would not be able to counterbalance all the sudden and unpredictable fluctuations in time. It's a question of timing in my opinion.
But I would like to know your opinion and that of others.
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