Courageous-class
In a letter published in the Times wrote Lord Fisher (1) about the plans to built an armada of 612 ships to transport 1 million Russian soldiers and land them 82 miles of Berlin, Germany.(2) The ships were protected against mines and torpedoes and able to transport large numbers of soldiers, guns, horses and sailors.
Notes
1. John Arbuthnot (Jacky or Jackie) Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (25 January 1841 Ramboda, Ceylon-10 July 1920)St. James‘s Square, London, England, an British admiral of the Fleet well known for his reform of the Royal British Navy. First Sea Lord in 1904.
2. The Baltic Project? Fisher at the time Admiral of the Fleet proposed to land troops on the German Baltic Coast supported by especially shallow draught battle cruisers of the Courageous-class. The Courageous and Glorious and half sister Furious were commissioned in 1917, all three later converted into aircraft carriers.
