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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).

Fatboy Coxy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:40 pm ..... but it was lost at sea when the supply ship was torpedoed and sunk".

Sounds to me as being sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic.

Automedon was sunk by scuttling charges not torpedo after being thoroughly looted by the Atlantis, any capture of a radio would have been documented.

Where is the information about this transmitter being transported coming from? The Alfred Holt ship Automedon was captured by KMS Atlantis in the Indian Ocean on 11 November 1940 along with its secret mails addressed to the C in C Singapore, however no mention made of a radio transmitter, if this is...

May 2023 usher in a return to sanity in our chaotic world. Byron We can wish it but sadly I can't see things happening at all. There seems little incentive to do so, if you take the Ukraine war as a yardstick there are no moves to end it, no prospect of negotiatons. The stalemate will drag on. As U...

Yes, there is a danger of going off thread, however the issues in my previous post do directly relate to the Norwegian campaign. With respect to Marschall, yes again it is easy to speculate. However Renown quickly degraded Gneisenau's gunnery and with Admiral Whitworth having some 12 destroyers in c...

For a''liberal democracy'' where defence is aimed at deterring attack, securing the Baltic would be a reasonable objective for a Weimar Germany. However we are not dealing with the reasonable, here we have an aggressive expansionist military power consumed with an ideology bent on racial supremacy a...

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Back at Narvik, Haarr is very critical that Bey did not try to get some of his ships away before Warspite and co arrived and wiped them out. There is another aspect to this - a couple of torpedo hits on Warspite and that battle is transformed - though this is with hindsight with ten destroyers avai...

wadinga wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:00 pm
Flares and searchlights could have been used to illuminate the Drombak Narrows

A searchlight illuminated Blucher so Eriksen could fire on it.

Either I will be decorated, or I will be court-martialed. Fire!

I believe he got both, albeit not at the same time....

Rather like the Tay Bridge....

Considering the tools at hand, I think the Norwegians did well. Strictly my opinion, of course. Byron With a more modern torpedo battery with more torpedoes the whole operation up Oslo Fjord could have been scuppered - the big guns would not be needed, judicious firing from the torpedo battery coul...

And also the Swedish warship Wasa......

Not much evidence of this that I am aware of, presumably the ship designers would take such factors into account?

The German experience with AGS in 1939 didn't seem to affect seakeeping, the main problem was that the tower made the ship easy to identify at long range - as HMS Exeter did.

marcelo_malara wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:44 pm I would say that heavier opposition was expected in Oslo, thus the cruisers there.

Moreover the most important targets - the Norwegian king and government were there and needed to be quickly seized. In the event the attempt still failed.