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- Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:14 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Nuclear powered Battleship?
- Replies: 187
- Views: 111651
Hi Karl: That was a very interesting magazine. I saw it quit a lot ago. Bear in mind that the US services tended to overate their Soviets counterparts, in part because of lack of intelligence, and in part because it was a mean of requesting more money!!! And, it was also an appropriate way to view ...
- Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Coount Luckner & his Seeadler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2634
Coount Luckner & his Seeadler
I see Amazon.com is showing a new book out on the adventures of Count Felix Luckner and his WW1 raider Seeadler: "The Cruise of the Sea Eagle - The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate", by Blaine Pardoe. ISBN 1592286941 Has anyone seen this or read this yet? Is it any...
- Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:33 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battleship Top Ten
- Replies: 626
- Views: 128723
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: New USS Texas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3063
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:23 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: New USS Texas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3063
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:18 am
- Forum: Buy, Sell and Trade
- Topic: Battleship Scharnhorst, Vulliez & Mordal, 1958
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11681
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:14 am
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Osprey - German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2805
Osprey - German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918
Grüße! Against my better judgement, I recently bought another Osprey "New Vanguard" naval book from Squadron, sight unseen - "German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918" by Gary Staff and Tony Bryan. I haven't read a word of the text yet, but the book (48pp) has several pretty good picture...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:46 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: The best turret arragement?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9189
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:07 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell and Trade
- Topic: Battleship Scharnhorst, Vulliez & Mordal, 1958
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11681
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:52 am
- Forum: Buy, Sell and Trade
- Topic: Battleship Scharnhorst, Vulliez & Mordal, 1958
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11681
Battleship Scharnhorst, Vulliez & Mordal, 1958
FYI to the forum, I have a copy of Vulliez & Mordal's 1958 book "Battleship Scharnhorst" posted on eBay. This is a first edition English copy, hard cover but with no dust jacket, and is in VG/G used condition. It is a duplicate in my naval library, so I thought I would move it to someo...
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:08 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: ....3 screws.....
- Replies: 18
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How did Iowa´s screws rotate? The Iowa's had four shafts. Each inboard shaft had a five-bladed, 17ft 0in screw; each shaft was housed in a hull skeg, with one of the twin rudders mounted behind the skeg in each of the inboard screw's wash. The two outboard shafts each had a four-bladed, 18ft 3in sc...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:00 am
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Prinz Eugen wreck at Kwajalein Atoll
- Replies: 42
- Views: 38218
I can speak from personal experience .................. The sight of the fuel oil globules streaming up to the surface every few minutes from the hulk of the USS Arizona - when viewed from the USS Arizona Memorial - this being fuel oil that was loaded aboard her on December 6, 1941, is very emotiona...
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:53 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Best rebuilt battleship?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 37866
- Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:41 am
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: Messerschmitt 262 site
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4388
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:35 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Big mast´s clock
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5267