“Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.” — David Edgerton Copy Share Image
“The great expanding centre of ‘inner Britain’, London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made… — David Edgerton Copy Share Image
“Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion… — David Edgerton Copy Share Image
“British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.” — David Edgerton Copy Share Image
