BLOCKADE TACTICS
IN THE TIME OF NELSON & TODAY. “The same strategy is being followed today as was followed by Nelson. Qf course blockading tactics have changed with the staggering developments in ships, guns, communications and aeroplanes. Nelson sat outside Napoleon’s harbour at Toulon for two and a half years. There were no bombers roaring at him from the skies. There were no motor torpedo-boats, racing towards him at nearly a mile a minute. There were no mines lurking around him And because his sails needed only the wind, there was no need to study refuelling needs. Nelson fought in the 2,000 ton flagship Victory, at five knots. Today’s mighty battleships are monsters of 35,000 tons capable of speeds over thirty knots. Nelson’s guns had a range of 300 yards. Today’s big guns fire a shell the weight of a motor-car a distance of twenty miles. But while we don’t sit outside harbours, we still blockade. Wc blockade from a distance.”—A. J. McWhinnie, in a 8.8. C. overseas talk.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1943, Page 4
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168BLOCKADE TACTICS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1943, Page 4
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