When Jap BB's sail off to glory,
they always add another storey.
Probably the first thing i learnt about their battleships.
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- Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: High towers on Japanese battleships
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3429
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Ships of the line
- Replies: 33
- Views: 50406
Re: Ships of the line
Don't forget lads, the heaviest guns were always in the lower decks, 64pdrs, with the lighter guns progressively ascending from the water line. Otherwise a capsize would ensue long before one met your adversary. In fact, as soon as you left harbour, or before. A 64pdr shot was twice the weight of a ...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: WW1 battleships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12916
Re: WW1 battleships
Come come OpanaPointer. You cannot be serious. What is this, join the dots. Okay, name them. That is all of them in the correct order. No cheating. Seriously, it illustrates the sheer complexity of a small ships rig and the seamanship skills of the men who sailed in them. So, we return to the net de...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: WW1 battleships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12916
Re: WW1 battleships
Thanks Alberto and OpanaPointer, both your additional images are appreciated and help clarify the stowage and deployment of these booms with their attendant nets. Alberto, as seamanship was understood Internationally the procedures would have been similar allowing for the differences in ship types a...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: WW1 battleships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12916
Re: WW1 battleships
Thank you Wadinga and others with an interest in this subject. I have thoroughly read both Manual of Seamanship volumes and the procedures for deployment and recovery of the Torpedo net defences is complex to the modern naval enthusiast unless one has a thorough grasp of early 20th Century seamanshi...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: 3-shaft propulsion
- Replies: 132
- Views: 176573
Re: 3-shaft propulsion
Previously the 3 shaft Illustrious class carriers were mentioned and the attendant savings in weight over 4 shafts. This issue had been discussed by the Admiralty Board and the Naval Architects long before when the design for Ark Royal was being formulated. The requirement was for the ship to attain...
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: WW1 battleships
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12916
Re: WW1 battleships
The British Admiralty Manual of Seamanship Volume 1 of 1908 covers torpedo net defence in detail, chapter IX from page 350 under the general category of rigging. All battleships, and some of the armoured cruisers, are fitted with torpedo net defence for protection against attack by torpedoes. In ear...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:59 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: RAF Singapore Auxiliary vessel "Aquarius' sunk 15.2.42 - crew names?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1433
Re: RAF Singapore Auxiliary vessel "Aquarius' sunk 15.2.42 - crew names?
Michael, welcome to this valuable resource. I am not certain how much i can help regarding individuals in RAFA Aquarius but i can give you some details on the vessel. Built by W. J. Yarwood & Sons in Nantwich, Cheshire as yard number 346 being launched 14th February 1934. She immediately conduct...
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20163
Re: Ships sunk in port by aircraft attacks
10th December 1941. USS Sealion SS 195. Cavite. On this date the first US warship after the carnage of Pearl Harbour had subsided was sunk in the conflict when the USA and Japan became belligerents. Others between the 8th and 10th had also been lost either scuttled or captured but Sealion became the...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:24 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: flashless cordite
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5682
Re: flashless cordite
Difficult to quantify the term flashless, in this action Norfolk was the only 8" of the trio and this may have had some bearing on her misfortune leaving her the unfortunate recipient.
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: Ship Models, Plans and Drawings
- Topic: HMS EXeter post Graf Spee shell hits 'drawing/s'?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9869
Re: HMS EXeter post Graf Spee shell hits 'drawing/s'?
Kev, if i could also advise, Bill is being incredibly modest here as in the current edition of Warship 2018 he has contributed an extensive article titled - Under the guns: Battle damage to Graf Spee, 13 Decmber 1939 of 22 pages. This follows 17 pages by Alan Zimm, a tactical analysis of the battle....
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:21 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Recommendation of Victoria Cross.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7802
Re: Recommendation of Victoria Cross.
Lt Cdr Gerard Roope was CO of HMS Glowworm sunk in action with the Hipper 8th April 1940.
Please follow this link for more details
www.hmsglowworm.org.uk
which includes a copy of the supplement to The London Gazette detailing the award of a posthumous VC to Lt Cdr Roope.
Please follow this link for more details
www.hmsglowworm.org.uk
which includes a copy of the supplement to The London Gazette detailing the award of a posthumous VC to Lt Cdr Roope.
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:42 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Recommendation of Victoria Cross.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7802
Recommendation of Victoria Cross.
Recommendation of Victoria Cross for Cdr C E Glasfurd (deceased) and Lt Cdr J F Barker (deceased) for action against German battlecruiser Scharnhorst: not approved. This is in file ADM 178/334 in the British National Archives (TNA), Kew. Many individuals in this forum and others have expressed const...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:51 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Regarding Hood at DS : a new article
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13436
Re: Regarding Hood at DS : a new article
Thanks for your interest Thorsten and Alberto, the brief statement i made re transposing the shell and magazine rooms in Hood's 3 half sisters is covered in detail by Ian Sturton, Cancelled Sisters: The Modified Hood Class, which comprised Anson, Howe and Rodney, Warship 2010, pp 96 - 102. Maybe you...
- Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Regarding Hood at DS : a new article
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13436
Re: Regarding Hood at DS : a new article
Some revisions. That is an understatement. When an author fails within 3 paragraphs to recognise the correct Armoured Cruisers lost in catastrophic circumstances at Jutland, with their entire complements, ones faith diminishes somewhat. Defence and Black Prince were the pair. Warrior was a very slow...