Let's see, Von der Tann is credited with sinking HMS Indefatigable at Jutland. This was a larger faster version of Invicible. I think that answers the question before it's asked.RF wrote:Here is another battlecruiser contest, with one that did blow up. Would VdT be able to blow up Inflexible?
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- Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:23 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Von der Tann vs. Inflexible
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7923
Re: Von der Tann vs. Inflexible
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: The other Lutzow
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2900
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:01 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Knights Cross
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6183
- Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:59 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: Greatest admiral of all time
- Replies: 219
- Views: 214398
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: WW1 Invincible/ Inflexible vs. WW2 Scharnhorst/Gneisenau
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15683
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:23 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Graf Zeppelin vs HMS Ark Royal and Victorious
- Replies: 122
- Views: 37246
hey... ok to go to back to the initial question... lets get specific... Graf Zeppelin with 20 Ju-87 and 20 Bf109 vs. HMS Ark Royal with 40 Swordfishes and 20 Fulmars lets say that the Graf Zepplin gets the well trained pilots, which have practised landing and starting from an carrier for quite some...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:58 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: What would Halsey or Nimitz have done?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3020
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:21 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: WW1 Invincible/ Inflexible vs. WW2 Scharnhorst/Gneisenau
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15683
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:13 pm
- Forum: Naval History Post-1945
- Topic: Argentine Navy - a query
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17982
Veinticinco de Mayo was a British colossus class carrier. She was later the Dutch HNLMS Karel Doorman. After a fire damaged her engine room she was sold to Argentina and replaced the older ARA Independencia, 25 May is May revolution day in Argentina and a National Holiday IIRC. On May 25 1810 the Sp...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:02 pm
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
- Replies: 150
- Views: 113993
I know more about the US Navy than any other, so: USS Constitution. CSA Virginia. CSA Florida. USS Monitor. USS Kearsarge. USS Olympia. USS Oregon. USS Washington. USS Tang. I imagine there are a few people who don't know how some of those ships distinguished themselves, or even when or in what per...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:43 pm
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
- Replies: 150
- Views: 113993
Ulrich The Gneisenau and Scharnhorst also proved to be quite formidable. There has been a misunderstanding: I wasn´t referring to the WWII twins but to Admiral Spee´s Squadron at Falkland Islands 1914. I´m very aware of the success of the German raiders, specially those incredible auxiliary cruiser...
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:04 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: County class heavy cruiser vs. Hipper class heavy cruiser
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13756
Coming back to the original proposition, a one on one battle between say Prinz Eugen and Devonshire (I pick these two as they did meet shortly after Germany capitulated) where both captains are ordered to fight to the finish and not to break off at the first opportunity, the key factor is who has t...
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:59 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battleships and Battlecruisers losses in WWII
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3852
A better covering of the IJN would be Hiei damaged by USN cruiser and destriyer force, further damaged and sunk by continued air attacks. Kirishima battered by USN battleships and scuttled. Mutsu destroyed by magazine explosion. Musashi sunk by USN air attack Fuso sunk by USN detroyer torpedos Yamas...
- Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:56 am
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: The Kaisers dreadnoughts
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30051
If they are ordered to fight they´ll go, end of the discussion, as any soldier has done in their country´s interest in History. You just can´t make any comparison between them and those sailors who DID THEIR DUTY in the Hood, the Bismarck, the Arizona, the Schanhorst, the Royal Oak, the Yamato, etc...
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:51 am
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: The Kaisers dreadnoughts
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30051
Russ: Their weakness was their leadership...the Kaiser himself, for keeping them bottled up for most of the War and not allowing them to do what they were designed for. Fighting the RN out at sea. Tiornu: If you want to blame the Kaiser, you have to blame him for building these ships in the first p...