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- Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:49 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Single events in Kriegsmarine history
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12682
Long range hits
Just another thought on the long range hits by Scharnhorst & Warspite. If you takes a senario where you are on a beach and you see a tin can floating out to sea so you grab a few pebbles and try and hit it. Most of your pebbles fall short, but one perhaps because it's lighter or smoother or you ...
- Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:21 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: The end of Scharnhorst
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16427
The end of Scharnhorst
On page 208 in Jacobsen's book 'Scharnhorst' it states 'In the course of the next 27 minutes the DOY pumped more than 200 heavy shells at the Scharnhorst from distances as short as 4000m'. 'Strangely only seven or eight of them appear to have scored hits' Quite apart from the rate of fire which woul...
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:21 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Single events in Kriegsmarine history
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12682
Admiral Marchall was far from happy with the gunnery of the Scharnhorst during the sinking of the Glorious Kind of Ironic that despite all that, she managed to hole Glorious's flight deck from a whopping 26,465 yards True, but this, (and Warspite's hit at the same great range) must be counted as 'f...
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:46 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Shell spread
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9794
- Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:41 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Shell interchangability
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5530
Shell interchangability
Would shells manufactured in different countries interchange i.e. would a 14/15/16" British shell fit and fire in the equivalent gun made in the US/France/Germany/Italy and vice versa?
- Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:36 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Loss of sterns on German ships
- Replies: 22
- Views: 22471
Is there any evidence that the stern broke away on the surface? I would have thought that as she hit the underwater mountain or whatever it was, the bow would have hit first then the stern would hit with an almighty wallop, possibly causing the stern to snap off. Alternatively the stern could have h...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:32 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Loss of sterns on German ships
- Replies: 22
- Views: 22471
Loss of sterns on German ships
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I am almost finished reading 'Scharnhorst' by Alf.R Jacobsen and in it he describes the wreck as having lost her stern (I think the bow section was blown off by a magazine explosion). As Bismarck and I believe another large German warship, (Blucher or Pri...
- Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:34 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: German Mistakes in WWII
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15614
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:10 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Denmark Strait Hypotesis
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11387
Re: KG V class 14 in performances
Ciao RF and all, I have not forgot to respond to you on this,..but I was really busy lately and I needed to find teh book and the infos to do it. So here it is an outlook from Peter Hodges : '' The BIG guns - the battleship main armament 1860 - 1945 ' edited by Conway Maritime Press in London on 19...
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:01 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: German Mistakes in WWII
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15614
I think the biggest mistake the Germans made was to build large battleships. A few more smaller ships of the Graff Spee type would have been far more effective for raiding purposes, after all, as Langsdorf is supposed to have said, they were fast enough to get away from any heavy ship barring the Ho...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:59 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: German loss of initiative
- Replies: 58
- Views: 21568
Just a thought, all the talk about who would or could have sunk what. Surely in real life it does not really matter whether or not one battleship was capable of sinking another in a ship to ship fight. Most Battleships had a substantial Cruiser or Destroyer escort and while it might be desirable for...
- Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:26 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: German loss of initiative
- Replies: 58
- Views: 21568
Lutjens didn't know he was fighting a ship with serious gunnery problems. He did know it was one of the newest British battleships. Suppose he continues to fight and PoW cripples Bismarck, or they both end up seriously damaged with reduction in speed? Now he is helpless as other British units close...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Hood explosion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6076
Be aware that the water pressure is 1 bar (or 1kg/cm2) for every ten metres. So a ship sunk at 2000 mt will receive a pressure of 200 bars (or 200 kg/cm2). A plate 1 m2 will receive a weight of 2000 tons. Only a structure designed for the deep will resist it. Wow, that a lot of pressure, it's not s...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:05 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Book on Scharnhorst
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2237
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:55 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Hood explosion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6076
Thanks for your replies chaps. I'm surprised that Hood suffered from implosion as she would have been much more heavily constructed than 'Titanic' and isn't as deep. As for the passageways, from what you say there was not any method of transfering shells from one end of the ship to the other, except...