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- Fri May 26, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: How close was the final battle?
- Replies: 256
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Re: How close was the final battle?
Gentlemen, Surely the rudder issue must come into the question? If a ship cannot steer the course it wants or needs to take during an action then that ship must be at a severe disadvantage - add not being able to use its speed to turn in order to put off the aim of its opponents and that ship is in ...
- Mon May 22, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: How close was the final battle?
- Replies: 256
- Views: 2592185
Re: How close was the final battle?
Sorry if this has been asked before. If the bismarcks salvo at 8:50 was a few meters closer, would it have struck the Rodney's fire control and won? The King George was weaker and would be at a disadvantage. Was all of history decided by a few meters? I don't think it was close at all, Bismarck cou...
- Tue May 09, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5821
Re: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
Thanks Byron, Re the pic - WOW! As for reloading taking 6 minutes, an enemy ship travelling at around 20 knots would be roughly 2 miles further on by the time a second shot was fired, I'm not surprised that they didn't hit each other very often. It makes me wonder what it was like at Trafalgar with ...
- Mon May 08, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5821
Re: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
With all that paraphernalia needed about re-loading, I'm not surprised it took so long - if a 13'5" needed that time to reload, heaven knows what a16" would take! >>>>> In the 1870s, Armstrong-Elswick built eight 17.7-inch 100-ton rifled muzzle-loading guns for the Italian navy - to be mo...
- Thu May 04, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5821
Re: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
Hello Paul, In fact as Marcelo's diagram makes clear the loading gear is under a deck in this design. However in the so called barbette ships the breech loading gun crews were totally exposed during loading. These ships expected to fight at close range 1-2000 yds max and incoming shells would have ...
- Wed May 03, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5821
Re: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
Thanks to you both Marcelo and Byron. With all that paraphernalia needed about re-loading, I'm not surprised it took so long - if a 13'5" needed that time to reload, heaven knows what a16" would take! What puzzles me about is the reloading mechanism shown in Marcelo's picture, which looks ...
- Mon May 01, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5821
Re: Fire Control of Pre-Dreadnoughts
>>>>> Seeing that you posted this inquiry on my birthday, I will do my best to help. Hi, all. In ships such as HMS Inflexible (1881) who had big ol' 16" (406mm) muzzle loaders as her main armament, and HMS Sovereign (1891) who had 2 twin 13.5" (343mm) guns - how did these ships direct the...
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: imaginary encounter
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3983
Re: imaginary encounter
Hello Mr. Malara, hit you are referring to is (according to a debatable sequence) hit n.1. It hit in compartments XX and XXI (almost extreme bows), out of protected 'citadel'. It had consequences on BS mission but it was not 'very serious' in itself, because at extreme bow BS had no vital equipment...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:56 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: PoW, Bismarck, Vittorio Veneto Torpedo Hits
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9345
Re: PoW, Bismarck, Vittorio Veneto Torpedo Hits
Has anyone produced an article or pictures on the state of HMS Repulse?
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:40 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Prince of Wales in front
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9966
Re: Prince of Wales in front
Hi Byron. I think that manoeuvre would have been highly dangerous for both ships, particularly when Hood overtakes PoW as Bismarck's gunners will have (for a short time) two ships fairly close together to shoot at with any 'Overs' on the first ship possibly hitting the other one, also would PoW maki...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:56 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Prince of Wales in front
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9966
Re: Prince of Wales in front
Gentlemen,
Going back to the original question about putting PoW in front of Hood, it would have been interesting to see if history would have been changed!
Going back to the original question about putting PoW in front of Hood, it would have been interesting to see if history would have been changed!
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: imaginary encounter
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3983
Re: imaginary encounter
Interesting that 14"/50 is considered of no consequence against Bismarck, and yet PoW seems to have done damage of consequence with fewer, less powerful guns. Wasn´t the impact of PoW on Bismarck in an unprotected area? Regards Hi Marcelo, I think it would be difficult to tell exactly what imp...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Spanish artillery in the age of sail
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3508
Re: Spanish artillery in the age of sail
I've read that the Armada sailed with cannons in field livery, full-sized wheels and limbers. Is this factually correct? Do you mean the 1588 Armada? Don´t know for sure, but they may be intended for the land campaign to follow. I believe that they did, there have been several programs over the yea...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:21 am
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Spanish artillery in the age of sail
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3508
Re: Spanish artillery in the age of sail
Gentlemen, A very interesting discussion. What does puzzle me is why they bothered to fit a flintlock firing mechanism at all, surely in the heat of battle a small amount of powder around the touch hole and fires with a lighted taper would be much faster, particularly when all the business of spongi...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Prince of Wales in front
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9966
Re: Prince of Wales in front
Thanks for that Hans,
You are probably correct in your reasoning, for all her faults, Rodney was still a very powerful ship, although I do wonder if Lutyens, having 'seen off' one KG class battleship, decided that Rodney was a far more dangerous proposition and opened up on her first?
You are probably correct in your reasoning, for all her faults, Rodney was still a very powerful ship, although I do wonder if Lutyens, having 'seen off' one KG class battleship, decided that Rodney was a far more dangerous proposition and opened up on her first?