Chapter 1684 Detained British
Argentina generally does not trust the tall fat man's historical warship girls, but they are a little special about Veneto. This is mainly because Veneto is the head of the Italian ship girl. There is no intersection between Italy and Argentina in history. Italy has never been strong in history, and it is impossible for him to have any ideas about Argentina in South America. After all, Argentina is known as one of the top three South Americans. Although Rivadavia-class battleships are not strong, they are not something that ordinary countries can challenge. Although Italy is not afraid of Rivadavia, there is no need to provoke Argentina. In addition, Argentina in this world has just been built and is still deeply affected in history.
Argentina obviously did not trust Gao Fatty, but Gao Fatty was also surprised, but Gao Fatty had a careful analysis and found that in history, the three South American top players went through many rounds of arms races when the economy was pretty good from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. The warships of these three countries were mainly purchased from European countries, but this brought about a problem.
Before the appearance of the dreadnought in history, Brazil suddenly discovered that the previously powerful navy had developed due to the arms race. The navies of the two countries of Chile were no longer enough. The Brazilian Navy, which was a little anxious, was ambitious to propose a plan to build three small battleships and some other battleships. The models of the three small battleships have also been confirmed and started construction. It was at this time that the Dreadnought was born. After discovering that the three small battleships built were lagging behind the times, Brazil stopped and demolished the three battleships that had already started construction and adjusted the construction plan.
The result of Brazil's adjustment was to rebuilt two Minas Gerais-class battleships, which was the first type of devastation in South America to serve, which also kicked off the arms race of the three South American top three. The Minas Gerais-class battleship directly stimulated Argentina, and Argentina also began its own dreadnought plan. Originally, the British order result, Argentina unexpectedly chose the US plan, which is the Rivadavia-class battleship. Of course, the arms race between Argentina and Brazil cannot be just the main battleship, but also includes some other battleships, including Argentina's Catamarca-class destroyer and Brazil's Bahia-class light cruiser.
As one of the top three South Americans, Chile responded a little slowly in the face of Brazil and Argentina purchasing dreadnoughts and expanding the navy, but it was finally finalized. As the last participant, Chile's main battleships were much stronger than Brazil and Argentina. Chile's main battleships were based on the Iron Duke as the model and made some modifications. It can be seen as the Iron Duke-class battleship that weakened its defense. Unlike the twelve-inch main guns of Minas Gerais and Rivadavia, Chile's main battleships were equipped with fourteen-inch main guns.
However, with the beginning of World War I, Chile's main battleship was detained by the British, until after World War I, the United Kingdom sold it to Chile at a low price, and was named Admiral Latorre by Chile. It was different from Brazil and Argentina. Chile only has Admiral Latorre. With the economic downturn of the three South American top three economy after World War I, this round of arms race came to an end.
In this round of arms race, all the three South American top warships were detained because of the outbreak of World War I. These warships were purchased, but they were requisitioned by their host countries because of the outbreak of war. What Britain did the most was the most overdoing. Britain not only detained warships from many countries in World War II. After World War I, Britain once wanted to sell the detained warships to the countries they purchased at the time, but many of them were useless because of excessive use in the war. Although such behavior shortened the cycle of Britain accepting warships, it also seriously affected the construction of the navy of the country where it was located.
The most famous of them is the battleship Reshadye of the Ottoman Empire. After the outbreak of World War I, Britain detained the basically built battleship on the grounds that the Ottoman Empire turned to Germany. As the last straw that broke the camel's back, the Ottoman Empire joined the Allies.
Of course, the United Kingdom was naturally not an excuse for the Ottoman Empire for the three South American countries, but this also seriously affected the construction of the Navy of the Three South American countries. Brazil, which started first, had good influence. Although Argentina had an impact, it was acceptable. Chile was affected the greatest. Not only the battleship Admiral Latorre did not return to Chile until the mid-20s. The planned destroyers were also detained by Britain because of the outbreak of World War I. Although Britain returned Chilean destroyers after World War I, but because of excessive use in the war, these destroyers were in a bad state. They were hurriedly retired after ten years of service in the Chilean Navy.
You should know that the main force of the Navy expansion plan in Chile's plan is battleships and destroyers. As a result, not only battleships are detained or destroyers are detained. I don't know what Chile feels when facing Minas Gerais and Rivadavia who have already served, but only old armored cruisers.
This is the main reason for Argentina's not very cold to the British ship girl. In history, due to the outbreak of World War I, Argentina originally bought twelve Catamata-class destroyers, of which four were built by Britain, Germany and France. Four were despised by Argentina and thought that they could not meet the standards and were not accepted. Later, they were sold to Greece by Britain. Four of France's four ships were abandoned due to economic reasons. Four of Germany's four ships received and felt good. Four more were added. As a result, these four ships were detained by Germany due to the outbreak of World War I.
The construction process of the USS Argentina light cruiser in history was also delayed because the British shipyards gave priority to taking care of their own warships. Fortunately, the construction was completed on the eve of the war. If some of the outbreak of World War II were delayed, the USS Argentina light cruiser would definitely be detained by the UK. It is precisely this reason in history that Argentina is not interested in the fat British girl of the tall and fat man, but it is also so unaware of the USS Colorado, so I don’t know why. After all, the two sisters of Rivadavia have a good relationship with the USS Argentina.
Veneto and Argentina had a hot chat, of course, it was mainly because Argentina was listening to Veneto again. Veneto just told the truth and did not bring his opinions into it. For an existence like Argentina, Veneto would be the best to tell the truth because Argentina would check the situation with the two sisters Rivadavia afterwards. If too many subjective factors were mixed with Veneto, it would seriously affect her relationship with Argentina. I don’t know that Veneto would not take this risk in the special aspects of Argentina.
Chapter completed!