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I'm think that Jellicoe should be included, he (or to be correct, the QE class battleships) saved Beatty from a awful hiding at Jutland!

Hi Paul, thanks for your perception on my models :oops: It´s been five years since I began with my collection. About the way I see the WWII dreadnoughts there is a thread in this forum´s Naval History chapter called the Battleship Top Ten which is now 8 pages long. I copy the last post that regards...

Many years ago when discussing why the Graf Spee ran at the River Plate battle, someone put forward a theory that because she was an all welded ship and as she had engaged the British ships on either beam that somehow the recoil had 'opened' some of the welds by twisting the ship in opposite directi...

Karl, many thanks for your detailed reply and your pics , I must say that your display is very impressive, you must have a lot of patience to make models like that!

i maintain my opinion that two KGV has an advantage against one Bismarck Class!! Thank you! :wink: I agree, if either Tirpitz or Bismarck had come up against 2 KG V's the result would never have been in doubt. Why? because the German ship would have either had to split her fire or concentrate on on...

Not necessarily, Tirpitz may be outnumbered but then on paper Bismarck shouldn't have won at DS as easily as it did. If one British ship is disabled early and Tirpitz avoids substantial early damage the advantage could still lie with the Germans. I can't see Howe and Anson sinking Tirpitz by gunfir...

Please gentlemen do not fight over this, I would really value your comments on my question as you are the experts on these matters. Karl, in the light my observations in my post, could you explain why you think BS would have sunk the POW if she had been fully functional and would she have actually s...

Hi there, I'm a newcomer to posting this forum although I have been following all the posts for some time and I have a question which I'm sure has been asked before somewhere (but I car'nt find it!). A lot has been said about the relative strengths of the ships involved and it does appear to me that...