re: #340 dragonath

I always thought it was kind of sick how that the French let half their fleet get blown up by the British in Mers-el-Kebir, given the circumstances, but blew up the rest of their ships in Toulon a couple of years later.

It was better than the alternative: Imagine if Germany had been able to seize the French fleet. They couldn’t have used most of it, but even a few ships could have wrecked an Atlantic convoy and the Dunkerque-class BCs were just the sort of ships good for raiding. Not surprising, since they were built to catch German ‘pocket battleships’.