Ask Tiornu, Scharnhorst was a bit faster. The same power plant, but Scharnhorst had higher SHP.Nellie wrote:What do you mean with catch Gneisenau but not Scharnhorst? Their topspeed were the same!
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- Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:01 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Twins vs Dunkerque/Strasbourg
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11559
- Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:45 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Missouri and Wisconsin instead of POW and Repulse!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3631
Iowas instead of POW and Repulse
Interesting. They certainly would have knocked down more planes. More, and generally better guns, as well as the most effective AA fire control. They were also considerably more maneuvreable than the British ships. Stll, I'd rather take bombs with them than torps, as their underwater protection left...
- Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:55 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Twins vs Dunkerque/Strasbourg
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11559
Dunkerque's vs. S and G
An interesting line up, as the "twins" were built to counter the Duetschland killing Dunkerque's. Bear in mind that Strasbourg was the more formidable of the French pair as she was better protected, and faster as memory serves me. Gunnery proficiency- I'll go with the Germans in this categ...
- Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:42 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Photo # NH 69722 distance evaluation
- Replies: 80
- Views: 40983
range estimation
Thanks for a great post! This one really messed with me. I used the full picture to base my judgements, but the perspective is different from the first photo submitted. The photo is not very clear but I based my judgements this way. I am a small boat sailor and sometimes find myself having to gauge ...
- Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:31 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau vs Yamato
- Replies: 77
- Views: 21419
S+G vs Yamato
If I were the Germans, I'd run. Ironically, the maximum theoretical gunnery range of all three ships is the same...circa 45,000 yards. Yamato's foretop height was much higher than in Scharnhorst so the optical ranging capability of the Japanese ship was also greater. The German ships also wouldn't h...
- Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:12 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: EUROPA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4020
- Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:32 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: FYI: Nazi Ghost Ship Found
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3304
Nazi ghost ship
The only book I ever read on the sinkings of the General von Steuben, Wilhelm Gustloff and Goya was called "The Cruelest Night". At the time that book was published no one really knew the true number of lives lost on any of the three. Estimates were 6 to 10,000 and seemed to point to the l...
- Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:17 pm
- Forum: Buy, Sell and Trade
- Topic: Binoculars, clocks, etc.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3756
Binoculars, clocks, etc.
Hey all of you European posters, have any of you ever run into old German naval binoculars or ships clocks for sale? Also, how about suggestions for Italian authored English language editions of books on the Italian Navy. I'd really like to read their side's version of the war in the Med, as well as...
- Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:58 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: A 46 cm shell (Yamato)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5124
46cm shell
I didn't remember the sixteen on wheels. I thought it was in cradles. The railway gun, not pictured, is however a fourteen. Back in the '70's there evidently was a ww2 configured destroyer at the Washington Navy Yard also, but it's gone now.
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:18 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Hoods rangefinder (instrument)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4226
Hood's range finder
There is a large, old, British range finder at Katoomba, N.S.W., Australia, in the Blue Mountains. The optics were messed up when I looked through it in '85, but it was of a size that could have come from a capital ship. A shame it had to sit out in the weather and get ruined.
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:12 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: A 46 cm shell (Yamato)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5124
46cm shell
The museum at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard has a real one, along with a piece of face plate armor that was pierced on a test shoot with a 406mm. The plate is a spectacular, but meaningless display when you consider that the shot had to be point blank. Both shell and armor plate are displayed outsi...
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:08 pm
- Forum: World Navies Today
- Topic: Goodbye Iowa and Wisconsin
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4239
Goodbye Iowa and Wisconsin
Some important news for all you other Dreadnought lovers on this forum. It appears that Iowa and Wisconsin may soon no longer be available mobilization assets. A certain Congressman named Pombo from California eveidently has succeeded in passing a bill that orders the Secretary of the Navy to turn o...
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:39 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Preservation of historic ships
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7192
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:38 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Preservation of historic ships
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7192
Sorry Ulrich but Washington was sold for scrap May 24, 1961, the same day Alaska was, and 20 years to the day that Hood was sunk. The State of Washington did indeed want her, and yet, in this country the fate of BB's often depended on which coast they were mothballed on. That is what sealed Washingt...
- Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:24 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau vs Renown and repulse
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10787