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by Matthias
Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:57 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Determining Distances from Photographs
Replies: 57
Views: 27555

Hello! Robert, I'm not sure I catched your point, but seem to me that the ship you see in the painting forward to Bismarck's bow is Prinz Eugen.The perspective of the painter was not from the Prinz Eugen bridge, but from an immaginary point behind the two ships, about a quarter from Bismarck's aft b...
by Matthias
Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:50 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Who really sank the Hood? Bismarck or Prinz Eugen?
Replies: 45
Views: 87149

The trouble is that those on-deck fires had to traverse to the magazines. Infact. I guess the most important trouble this fire gave to Hood crew was the heavy smoke it made, which disturbed a lot the fire control stations and the immediate use of the X and Y towers as soon as they reached the angle...
by Matthias
Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:14 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Prinz Eugen towing Bismarck?
Replies: 49
Views: 30112

Re: Prinz Eugen towing Bismarck?

IF Lutjens never detachted the Prinz Eugen, AND supossing it went scratchless from the attack from the Swordfish torpedo planes: could Prinz Eugen, in the middle of the Atlantic, somehow towed Bismarck to France? I don't think so, even because Prinz Eugen had to be detached because of its lack of f...
by Matthias
Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:40 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Who designed the Bismarck
Replies: 34
Views: 10411

No, in effect he designed a battleship armed with 305 mm guns, quite similar to the Dreadnought, and he proposed it to the Italian Royal Navy which refused because of economical problems, diffidence and so on...but they allow him to publish his idea on the Jane's in 1903.
by Matthias
Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:10 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Who designed the Bismarck
Replies: 34
Views: 10411

Let's say he was the first to spread his ideas around.Expecially considering he called his article "La nave da guerra ideale per la Marina Britannica", the ideal battleship for British Royal Navy. Without doubt he wasn't the only one in the world who was considering this idea of the monoca...
by Matthias
Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:59 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Who designed the Bismarck
Replies: 34
Views: 10411

foeth wrote:Actually I think the Dreadnought's father should be Cuniberti...
Thank God someone remembers him...;)
by Matthias
Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:58 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck a Baden Class?
Replies: 35
Views: 15353

Indeed.Not much tima ago me and Antonio had a discussion about the damage inflicted by the famous torpedo to Bismarck's steering gear, during which he explained me what kind of dmage was.Really it doesn't seem to me the kind of damage due to a lack of protection...
by Matthias
Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:32 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck a Baden Class?
Replies: 35
Views: 15353

Indeed, there's also this aspect.;)
by Matthias
Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:04 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck a Baden Class?
Replies: 35
Views: 15353

Well, someone think it was, mostly because of their 380mm guns. But, apart the fact that the guns weren't the same but completely new ones, I found Bismarck and Scharnhorst classes construction in many aspects more similar to the battlecruisers of the Von Der Tann and expecially Lutzow class, then n...
by Matthias
Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:51 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck a Baden Class?
Replies: 35
Views: 15353

Do you mean the battleships of Bayern-Baden class?
by Matthias
Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:32 pm
Forum: Naval Technology
Topic: Battleship South Dakota Damage Report
Replies: 1
Views: 4864

very very interesting, thank you! :)
by Matthias
Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:32 pm
Forum: Ship Models, Plans and Drawings
Topic: Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Hood announced
Replies: 2
Views: 2313

:think: ?
by Matthias
Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:49 am
Forum: Military History and Technology
Topic: French military victories?
Replies: 49
Views: 42026

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
by Matthias
Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:52 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Bismarck´s bow and aft stripes
Replies: 14
Views: 10006

Well, nevertheless he is the same movie director the puts jealous billionares firing revolvers to his ex fiancee exactly when the Titanic is sinking. :shock: Word, you catch the point...;) Yes, the stripes were all covered that day with all the svastikas, infact you may see pictures of the Denmarck...
by Matthias
Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:26 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Photo Identification
Replies: 26
Views: 17821

Sea so often does not forgive great sailors and brave men, and takes their lives...



Surely it does not have mercy of idiots and cowards... :wink: