An interesting press photo I recently picked up at eBay ...
http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/sho ... 0&format=0
and by interesting I´m not referring to the photo captured during shipyard trials in april 1938 but rather the message below.
The Battle of Stromvaer
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Re: The Battle of Stromvaer
Garzke & Dulin in their "Axis and Neutral Battleships in WW2" have RENOWN hitting GNEISENAU with two 15" shells - the one through the foremast and the second "damaged and silenced the after turret". What do German records have to say about this second shell?
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That's what Hipper's captain heard too!Terje Langoy wrote:An interesting press photo I recently picked up at eBay ...
http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/sho ... 0&format=0
and by interesting I´m not referring to the photo captured during shipyard trials in april 1938 but rather the message below.
I think once the news flashed that Renown had caught up with "Scharnhorst" (or Gneisenau as the case may be), not knowing the circumstances, the immediate thought would be "their goose is cooked" since it also would be expected that Renown could match either of them in speed and outclass them in firepower.
Then there's the propaganda angle as well. How many times did the Germans "sink" the Ark Royal! Now the shoe is on the other foot!
Qui invidet minor est - He who envies is the lesser man
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Re: The Battle of Stromvaer
Nickname for Renown! I'm not sure where she got it - maybe from her record setting voyage from the Indian Ocean back home in 1945 - showing she was still the fastest captial ship in the RN!