Main Fleet to Singapore Quotes

“For approximately sixpence on the income tax, we could have kept a fleet permanently in the Pacific more or less equal to the Japanese Navy and still have had enough at home. We could, that is, had we not rashly allowed our hands to be tied at Washington by agreeing to a naval ratio that prevented an adequate battlefleet being stationed in the East.”
― Russell Grenfell, Main Fleet to Singapore

“For roughly twopence on the income tax, we could have had another 200 fast escort vessels, about the number we were short on”
― Russell Grenfell, Main Fleet to Singapore

“the outbreak of war in 1939: the shortage resulting in an avoidable loss through submarine sinkings of possibly fifteen million tons of allied shipping, with the cargoes, the combined cost of which may possibly and not improbably have been as much as £2,000 million.[81]”
― Russell Grenfell, Main Fleet to Singapore