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What interests me about this is the idea of using the US Dollar as the currency, as in the past this would have been seen as the country being dominated or owned by the United States as a ''gringo imperialism.'' Are these ideas now dead? Or could they re-surface over time, especially if the economy ...

I see that the BBC in Britain has reported that a ''far right'' candidate named Javier Milei has won the election to be Argentina's next president by an 11% margin. I'm not quite sure why the BBC describes him as ''far right'' except I suspect that they don't like his politics and that Trump has end...

Going somewhat off thread, the KM around 1939 was in communication with the Dutch Navy over a proposal to construct battlecruisers for the Dutch using a modified Scharnhorst design, there is I believe a previous thread here from over ten years ago on these battlecruisers. Consensus was that the desi...

Thinking logically the best access and supply route from Europe to Iran/Iraq is across the Bosphorus through Turkey, which would also put Wehrmacht panzer divisions on Turkey and Irans border with Russia without having to go via Africa and Palestine. Now Turkey was neutral in WW2 - but in 1941 wide ...

The height of the deck above the waterline looks very low, I presume this is an optical illusion as in anything other than a flat calm water is going to be sloshing on to the decks and the base of the turrets.......

And I guess no one wants to talk about the remnants of the Imperial Japanese Fleet stashed about various places in the Inland Sea in the summer 1945 . . . sitting ducks for TF-38 strikes, though they, the TF-38 staff, thought it a monumental waste of resources. At that time these ships had nowhere ...

Britain did have the radar system early on in Britain but the short range to Nazi occupied Europe and the wealth of targets in Britain made it a little less useful as far as defending ships in port vs air attacks. I don't entirely agree. Ports such as Liverpool and Glasgow were given warning of imp...

PH was attacked with radar switched on - the Jap planes were tracked in, the radar operators reported the contacts to their controllers who told them to ''forget it.''

Radar is only any good if people not only use it but act on it - which gave Britain a big advantage in the summer of 1940.

If the RN or the British Government simply ''wanted rid of the ships'' it would have been far more lucrative to have them broken up in shipyards and the scrap steel sold off - countless thousands of tons of it! Or - simply sell them off to the highest bidder, or at least the highest acceptable bidde...

The Germans always considered it a battleship. This I think is more propaganda than reality, much the same as the pocket battleships were described as ''armoured cruisers.'' The River Plate battle demonstrated that Graf Spee was not an armoured ship as it suffered considerable damage from six inch ...

Or perhaps most likely the assumption that the Germans wouldn't do anything - the indiscipline and lack of pride in their uniforms of the naval crews following the Kiel naval mutinies gave the impression that the German fleet was no longer a capable military force, not even in sinking their own ships.

In Denmark Strait, with a perfectly controllable ship, she hit Hood with one out of 24 shells fired (?, 6 salvos of 4 guns?), what gives a standard 5% hit rate. Regards There were three hits that we know about - one on the third salvo starting/adding to the fire on the midships section immediately ...

paul.mercer wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:42 pm

The facts are that had Bismarck not taken a hit in her rudder I don't think any of the RN ships would have got near her

I think that is the crux of the matter.

Best shot would be to go to the Marconi museum archives and try to find out what records are there regarding transhipment of the radio, once the contracted ship name is identified it can be looked up in the Lloyds shipping registry (assuming the ship was British). Hi RF, thank you for this, I've no...

Best shot would be to go to the Marconi museum archives and try to find out what records are there regarding transhipment of the radio, once the contracted ship name is identified it can be looked up in the Lloyds shipping registry (assuming the ship was British).