I dont know if i showed this map from battle summary 24 and reconstruction of relative positions of the various ships during that engagementalecsandros wrote:No, it's right...Steve Crandell wrote:I may have a mistaken impression of what happened. I thought the DoY opened fire at less than 10km and the battle was short ranged until Scharnhorst eventually managed to open the range to 18km before the engineering casualty caused it to begin to decrease again. Is this wrong?
but Scharnhorst required 80 minutes to open the range from 11km to ~ 19km or so (distance when Duke of York ceased fire). in that interval, Scharhorst suffered 4 or 5 x 14" hits.
position at
1700 blue
1800 green
1824 yellow DOY checks fire
1830 pink
1840 orange
1850 blue
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