Notes

Reviewing the Fleet

1.	Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten: The Official Biography (Guild Publishing, London,1985), p.522.
2.	Ibid, p.550.
3.	National Maritime Museum Ships Archive, Woolwich: CVA-01 Ships Cover.
4.	National Archives, Kew:ADM 205/192.
5.	Lord Carrington, Reflect On Things Past (William Collins, London, 1988), p.160.
6.	Ibid, p. 161.
7.	National Maritime Museum Ships Archive, Woolwich: CVA-01 Ship Cover.
8.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE25/40.
9.	National Archives, Kew:AIR20/11242.
10.	National Archives, Kew: CAB129/114.
11.	Ibid.

1966 and All That

1.	National Maritime Museum Ships Archive, Woolwich: CVA-01 Ships Cover.
2.	Royal Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth: NHB Study 62–20.
3.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/589.
4.	Ibid.
5.	Ibid.
6.	Ibid.
7.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/114.
8.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/115.
9.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/589.
10.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/114.
11.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE69/481.
12.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/589.
13.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/2937.
14.	National Archives, Kew:T225/2963.

‘The Cruiser’

1.	‘The Defence White Paper 1966’, Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton, in RUSI Journal, May 1966.
3.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE24/234.
4.	‘Admirals in Dispute with First Sea Lord’, Desmond Wettern, in Sunday Telegraph, 12 December 1966.
5.	‘The Royal Navy in the Next Decade’, Rear Admiral Terence Lewin, in RUSI Journal, August 1968.
6.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE24/385.
7.	Ibid.
8.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3471.
9.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE24/386.
10.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3322.
11.	Interview with the author, 2 July 2007.
12.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3323.

Invincible and the Sea Harrier

1.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3471.
2.	Hansard, 10 March 1969.
3.	National Archives, Kew:AIR8/2629.
4.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3471.

A New Genus

1.	Edward Ashmore, The Battle And The Breeze (ed Eric Grove) (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire,1997), p.267.
2.	A F Honnor and D J Andrews, HMS Invincible The First of a New Genus of Aircraft Carrying Ships (paper presented to the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, London, 28 April 1981).
3.	National Archives, Kew:T225/3606.
4.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE24/1386.
5.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE24/1384.

Invincible Emerges

1.	Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, ‘A Very Good Run For Your Money’, in NAVY International, August 1978.
2.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE19/227.
3.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE69/619.
4.	Admiral James Holloway, Aircraft Carriers At War (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis,2007), pp.383–5.
5.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE69/619.

Under the White Ensign

1.	Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, London, 1993), p.249.
2.	Interview with the author, 5 December 2007.

No Way Forward

1.	Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol 3 (Reprint Society, London, 1950), p.343.
2.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts (Leo Cooper, London,1993), p.6.
3.	Interview with the author, 23 November 2007.

For Sale

1.	National Archives, Kew: DEFE13/1198.
2.	Interview with the author, 30 October 2007.
3.	Op cit.
4.	Ibid.
5.	Ibid.
6.	Interview with the author, 2 July 2007.
7.	Journal of Captain J J Black, RN.
8.	Op cit, p. 218.

Invincible at War

1.	Journal of Captain J J Black, RN.
2.	Ibid.John Lehman,
3.	Command Of The Seas (Macmillan Inc., New York,1988).
4.	Op cit.
5.	Ibid.

What Lessons?

1.	The Falklands Campaign:The Lessons, Cmnd 8758.
2.	Ibid.

Carrier Comeback

1.	Interview with the author, 7 March 2008.
2.	Admiral Jock Slater, ‘A Fleet for the Nineties’, in RUSI Journal, February 1993.
3.	Rear Admiral Peter Abbott, ‘A Rationale for Maritime Forces in the New Strategic Environment’, in RUSI Journal, April 1993.
4.	The Fundamentals of British Maritime Doctrine, BR1806 (HMSO, 1995).

The Blair Effect

1.	Speech to the Economic Club, Chicago,24 April 1999.
2.	Interview with the author, 3 August 2007.
3.	Strategic Defence Review, Cmnd 3999, July 1998.
4.	Ibid.

After Invincible

1.	‘Paying for defence’, in Financial Times, 12 December 2007.
2.	Interview with the author, 9 April 2007.
3.	Interview with the author, 30 October 2007.
4.	Ibid.
5.	Jeremy J Blackham and Gwyn Prins, ‘The Royal Navy at the Brink’, in RUSI Journal, April 2007.
7.	Future Navy Vision 2006, RN.
8.	Interview with the author, 9April 2008.
9.	Interview with the author, 17 September 2007.
10.	Interview with the author, 9 April 2008.
11.	Ibid.

Carrier Conundrum

1.	Interview with the author, 10 April 2008.
2.	Ibid.
3.	A Co-Operative Strategy for 21st Century Sea Power, US Navy, October 2007.
4.	Richard N Haas, ‘The Age of Non Polarity’, in Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008.
5.	Op cit.
6.	Interview with the author, 9 April 2008.
7.	Michael Quinlan, ‘We must question the case for carriers’, in Financial Times, 20 February 2008.