The Windfall Battleships. Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan & Latin-American Arms Races

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The battleships Agincourt, Erin and Canada were all ones of a kind’ in the Royal Navy’s First World War Grand Fleet. Although all were built to designs by Josiah Perrett, Chief Naval Architect of the British Armstrong combine, and constructed either by their parent’s shipyards or that of their rivals-cum-collaborators Vickers, each had been ordered by a foreign power, their acquisition by the Royal Navy due simply to their still being in the hands of their builders when the UK found itself faced with war in the summer of 1914. As such, they could be seen as ‘windfalls’ or ‘gift horses’ - useful additions to the navy, but not perhaps quite what their new owners would have ideally wanted when looked at in any detail.

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Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations and Conventions
1. August 1914 and Beyond
2. The Latin-American Connection
3. The Balkan Connection
4. With the Grand Fleet
5. Alternative Service: Erin, Canada and Agincourt
6. Alternative Service: Eagle
7. Ends and New Beginnings
8. The Ageing Queens of Latin America
9. Retrospect
Appendices: Warships Under Construction for Foreign Customers in August 1914
Notes
Bibliography
Index