Hello All,
This map SK_NK_PoW_at_0320_011.jpeg shown above has been shown before but it worth reiterating how much of a distortion it is.
The red track shows PoW's chart course with distortions like the instantaneous change from a northerly track to SSW and the straight lines caused by attempting to reproduce with ruler and curves the track from the Admiralty Research Station plotter lost to damage. This comes from the Action Plan the original of which
in its entirety I have shown.The chart grid appears to respect PoW's estimate of her geographical position based on D/R from leaving Scapa.
Norfolk's position has been transferred from the erroneous location relative to PoW at 05:41 (itself guesswork) and the track from the strategical chart generated by Norfolk superimposed, presumably at close to the right scale. It is of course very different to the Norfolk track from the PoW action plan, which actually generated that D/R position at 05:41. This Strategical map shows two positions for Suffolk, without any explanation of how these POSITIONS are derived. One at 03:20 coincides with a transmission by Suffolk. A green bearing from PoW's track is drawn, based on the 03:20 bearing shown on the PoW action plan with no respect for the plus or minus 2 degrees factor. The one D/F bearing PoW achieved on a Norfolk transmission at 02:29 is used as a guesstimate to anchor the start point of Norfolk's track, again without allowing for plus minus 2 degrees. Then a blue bearing is generated from the 03:20 location on the Norfolk track to intersect the PoW bearing. With angle of intersection only being c 15 degrees it could have been 19 or 11 degrees making an enormous difference to Suffolk's distance to the NW. That is only the D/F measuring tolerance, assuming the Norfolk location at 03:20 is perfect.
By 05:41 a second POSITION is shown for Suffolk only about 14 miles NW of Norfolk, but neither ship reports seeing each other despite Hood and PoW being able to see the German ships, on a similar bearing only ten miles SW, at a distance of well over 17miles. Suffolk's represented position is clearly in error as is Norfolk's as well. Despite the two ship's average courses continuing to converge for 45 minutes, they never sight each other, except when Norfolk sees gunflashes at 06:20 only, on a day of "exceptional visibility".
This map has been reverse engineered solely from from the requirement to prove some sort of guilt. On the Norfolk strategical map the POSITIONS shown for Suffolk at 03:20 and 05:41 have no provenance. On the PoW action plan the POSITIONS of Norfolk and Suffolk have provenance in that they are simple estimates based on D/R from erroneous radioed positions made hours before.
to challenge my works with an old and very poor Schmalenbach 1970' s map
At least Schmalenbach was there and had some interest in what actually happened , rather than creating a smear campaign based on "intuitions" and fabricating evidence to prove it so as to out-Cernuschi Cernuschi.
All the best
wadinga