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- Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:28 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Longest Gunfire Hit
- Replies: 48
- Views: 75420
Re: Longest Gunfire Hit
There may be evidence of an actual hit by Yamato on White Plains according to http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.c ... -Oldendorf. Yamato may also have hit Johnston at fairly long range according to the same post.
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 10:59 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Backing plates under armour?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3045
Re: Backing plates under armour?
It took me some effort to find again the page where Google had found the dubious image. It was on a forum associated with a game called Pacific Storm (http://www.pacificstorm.net). The Wikipedia article on the game said “This game has been criticized by many gamers due to some historical inaccuracie...
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:00 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Backing plates under armour?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3045
Backing plates under armour?
Were there backing plates, presumably of ST 52, underneath the armoured decks of Bismarck and Tirpitz? Most discussions do not mention any but several such as http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2908&hilit=backing+armor+armour+deck&start=15#p29652 explicitly only list armo...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:09 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Story about my father's service on a sub in WWII
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1425
Re: Story about my father's service on a sub in WWII
Thank you John for your posting on USS Stingray. As reported, Stingray picked up four Japanese prisoners from a cruiser, which had been torpedoed by another submarine. The cruiser's name was Natori, which had been sunk by USS Hardhead. If you have any vouchers or book tokens left over after Christma...
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 5:33 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: June 1944 battleship encounter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7388
June 1944 battleship encounter
What if there had been a battleship encounter at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944? This allows us to offer various alternative scenarios but I think that the American knowledge of the Japanese battleships was sufficiently limited that we can imagine a variety of Japanese forces approach...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:56 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Beauty & the Beast
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18363
Re: Beauty & the Beast
The difficulty is trying to understand the problems of the dispersion of salvos from Vittorio Veneto and perhaps Littorio. There is a photograph of a salvo falling near HMAS Perth at Matapan at http://www.perthone.com/pmat.html which shows the dispersion. However, Littorio was much more effective at...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:33 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Rodney torpedoes compared to Long Lance?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 29564
Re: Rodney torpedoes compared to Long Lance?
I am not sure if any Type 93 torpedoes were fired during the Second Battle of Guadalcanal except for those fired by Tanaka's two ships, Kagero and Oyashio, which only arived at the end of the battle. Washington evaded those by a perhaps fortunate change of course. The only destroyers with Kondo's fo...
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:56 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Were battleships actualy usefull in WW 2 ?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 14119
Re: Were battleships actualy usefull in WW 2 ?
Let me put it this way: In may 1941, what would you rather have if you were admiral Raeder: One 50000 ton battleship and one 20000 ton cruiser ready for action or 70 additional 1000 ton submarines ready for action? Note that this is twice the number of German uboats operational at that time. Battle...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:36 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Kampon boilers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26958
Re: Kampon boilers
Thank you for the FTP 218 reference. It gives a range of rates of fuel consumption at 27 knots of 11,988-15,200 gallons per hour. I took the figure of 272 gallons per ton for crude oil from Wikipedia and that conversion gives that the best consumption was 44.07 tons/hr., which is close to the websit...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Kampon boilers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26958
Re: Kampon boilers
I took the data about USS Washington from a web page at http://usswashington.com/fuel.htm which references it to "BATTLESHIP AT WAR" by Ivan Musicant which I have not read. The Yamato data is in the report on IJN boilers and also repeated in “IJN Yamato” by W. David Dickson (so I believe i...
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:31 pm
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Kampon boilers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26958
Re: Kampon boilers
There is a very critical description of Japanese WW2 boilers at http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200H-0416-0521%20Report%20S-01-12.pdf. I am sure that the boilers were inferior to those of the USN. However, the inferiority is perhaps less dr...
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:35 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: "Yeah, about that air cover..."
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3078
Re: "Yeah, about that air cover..."
Not only did the Luftwaffe know that Bismarck was heading for France but a Luftwaffe signal was decoded at Bletchley on May 25th also informing the British http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9wqkVBuiCgEC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=bismarck+luftwaffe+enigma&source=bl&ots=o85Sanw-Da&...
- Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:02 pm
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Flamm submarines hull.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9848
Re: Flamm submarines hull.
My reply is rather late as I have only just seen this but it might be interesting to compare the Flamn design with the Dutch Dolfijn class http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/classes/ ... potvis.htm
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:29 pm
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
- Replies: 257
- Views: 284613
Re: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
I am going to suggest the Battle of Red Cliffs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Red_Cliffs as another possibility for the poll. This is just because it wins the prize for a battle on a river even if it cannot compare to such critical events as the Battle of Valcour Island.
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:39 pm
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: FW190 v others
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31675
Re: FW190 v others
The new build Fw 190s are powered by a derivative of the Shvetsov ASh-82 http://www.flugwerk.de/html/page.php?GID=19&SID=4. I very much doubt if a bigger engine such as a R-2800 would fit. I don't see why it shouldn't fit; the R2800 is only an inch or two larger in diameter. It made more power ...