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- Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:58 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck´s bow and aft stripes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10236
Sorry, I think I got misunderstood. When I was saying that water absourbs colours, I didn´t meant that the paint itself gets absourbed, but that the light´s wavelenght corresponding to the colour is filtered out by the water, so you can´t see that colour because its wavelenght doesn´t reach the eye...
- Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:04 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck´s bow and aft stripes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10236
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:05 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck´s bow and aft stripes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10236
The crew painted both of the svastikas covering them with a grey tone may 22nd, after leaving Korsfjord. About the wreck, well, paint isn't projected to be applied on a surface dirty of iodine and chlorine salts, water and so on.So, after the permanence in salty water for almost 65 years, it's seem ...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battlecruiser definition?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15624
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:43 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battlecruiser definition?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15624
Well, HMS Lion received a 280 hit on her central turret from Von Der Tann too, correct me if I mistake, and the cordite was put on fire.A larger explosion was avoided by flooding the magazines, so it's highly probable that Queen Mary was lost in the same way. But I am not that sure about Indefatigab...
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:36 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck plans in Soviet hands
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8330
:shock: I have no info about this fact, but being Hitler perfectly aware of the fact he would have spread out war to the russian in some years, I'm asking myself why he should have sold the plans of his mightiest battleships to his enemy...I mean, it's not the hull of an incomplete heavy cruiser, it...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
- Topic: Jutland recurrent themes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 45004
Re: Jutland recurrent themes
I agree that all the bright ideas were British: battleships and battlecruisers were their´s, I don't: the monocaliber battleship was born in Italy from the ideas of Vittorio Cuniberti, who published his ideas on the Jane's in 1903 I believe.His ideas were made reality by Fisher, but in fact he was ...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:20 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battlecruiser definition?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15624
Of course!!! The cordite had by then a long history of accidentals explosions in warships. It reacted violently when burned in confined spaces, instead of burning slowly like the German RPC propellant. I am a chemist, I know...;) The translation should be Ship of the Line, Battle-ship Armoured-ship...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:44 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Battlecruiser definition?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15624
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:16 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Machinery replacement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16313
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:44 am
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Machinery replacement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16313
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:30 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Machinery replacement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16313
- Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:25 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: Building the Kaiser's Navy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4225
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:49 pm
- Forum: Movies, Films, Documentaries and Games
- Topic: Cameron it´s too political correct
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11392
You are lucky if they get the Ship right. They make documentaries for sale and to entertain not for scholarship. You cannot go and make a movie that says: 'They were not all Nazis. Some were actually quite nice.' You have to keep it simple so that it sells. Good guys versus bad guys. If you are for...
- Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:37 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Machinery replacement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16313
If I am not mistaken I think that every ship has her own replacement pieces in her magazines, in order to achieve reparations directly in the sea, if the entity of the damage make it possible. I guess Ulrich is right, I cannot imagine a whole battleship being disarmed, semi dismantled in order to ch...