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Battle of Jutland´s 91st anniversary
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:36 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
Hey, guys! The day after tomorrow is May 31st. Does the name Indefatigable rings a bell?
Jellicoe?
Beatty?
Hipper?
Scheer?
Inmense amount of dreadnoughts firing to each other...?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:59 pm
by marcelo_malara
Inmense amount of dreadnoughts firing to each other...?
The first and last time in history this happened
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:08 am
by RF
The centennial anniversary of this battle is now only nine years away and I would imagine that some sort of major ceremony will be held to mark the occassion, just as a couple of years ago we had the bicentennary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which the French and Spanish navies took full part in the proceedings.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:15 pm
by Gary
Hi all.
Yes, tomorrow is the biggest day in the calendar for Battleship fans.
The columns banging away at each other with heavy calibre guns.
Warspite
Derfflinger
Seydlitz
Von Der Tann.
Iron Duke
Konig
Such fine ships will never grace the oceans again.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:53 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
Today´s is
DER TAG
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:58 pm
by Gary
Biggest day in the dreadnought calender
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:20 pm
by _Derfflinger_
Quite a bit of historic anniversaries in the final days of May for we naval fans!
Derf
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:28 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
And Midway is just a week away: another great date. The Pacific DER TAG...
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:30 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
Talking about Jutland I have a question to made.
It remains, for many, a great mistery why Scheer attacked the British battleline the second time (the first he was caught by surprise) which is quite interesting. His was a suicide move or he was hoping to break "Nelson Style" between the enemy dreadnoughts? Why he did something like that?
Kind regards...
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:54 pm
by marcelo_malara
Hi Karl:
From memory I think that he didn´t expect the British fleet still to be there, he believed that it had already moved to the South and that he could pass behind them.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:09 pm
by Karl Heidenreich
Marcelo,
well, that could be an explanation because Old Reinhard Scheer accomplished something incredible: to escape without a scratch from a crossing of his "T" and attempt again to get crossed for a second time.
Did Scheer wrote something about that, perhaps memories?
Kind regards...
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:34 pm
by marcelo_malara
Scheer to the Austrian Naval attache: "I had not definite object. I advanced because I thought I should help the Wiesbaden and because the situation was entirely obscure, since I received no wireless reports." (From Bennett´s The battle of Jutland).