Re: Spam:******, Re: [BPARK] Typex in the Navy?

Dear Matt,  Please see my post to Ian Walter which I will try to forward 
to you.
  Bulley's ship HMS Tyrian, was a destroyer of 1700tons and used Typex.

It sounds as if Ralph Erskine has slipped up for once!

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Matt R wrote:
> --- Ian Walker <ianwalker-iISbEiSP9V1LonROPQ/[email protected]> wrote:

> 

>> During the Churchill weekend, in the Bombe area at BP, I was asked by a 
>> visitor if the British Typex machine was used on board ship by the Navy. 
>> Can anybody shed any light on this?
> 
> If you can get hold of it, Ralph Erskine's article on this topic addresses this
> question in fascinating detail:
> 
> Ralph Erskine, "The Admiralty and Cipher Machines During the Second World War:
> Not So Stupid after All." Journal of Intelligence History 2(2) (Winter 2002).
> 
> Erskine says, "In the result, Typex, as such, only served on board fleet
> flagships and, for combined operations, landing ships headquarters, and never
> entered service on other ships. Instead, Typex was only used in ships as the
> basis of the British end of the British-American Combined Cipher Machine."
> 
> The reason for this, Erskine argues, was the slow production of Typex. (The
> Admiralty had been previously accused by some writers of "stupidly" refusing to
> adopt cipher machines).
> 
> -- Matt
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