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- Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:03 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck bow anchors
- Replies: 15
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Mooring generally means either tied up to a dock, secured fore and aft to a paired set of concrete anchor bouys, or anchored with both bow anchors or one bow anchor and one stern anchor set at wide angles apart to prevent the ship from swinging at anchor. The amount of swing is controlled by the tau...
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:14 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck bow anchors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11921
George R, Ahhhhhhhhhh, so they did jettison them afterall. That is good to know. This is the wonderful thing about these discussion forums--all the minutae which tends to come into the light for all to see instead of remaining lost in the dark. Knowledge shared is knowledge that will not be lost wit...
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:08 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck bow anchors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11921
It is curious, particularly since video of the wreck show one length of anchor chain running from the capstan and chain pipe into a long shell hole in the forecastle deck. This seems to indicate that at least one of the bow anchors was retained up to final battle at which point it was apparently los...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:37 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck bow anchors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11921
Bismarck bow anchors
If you are building a model with yellow turrets, the bow anchors and chains should be gone too by that time; they were slipped on 25.5.41 to help raise the bow. Ulrich, If I understand correctly, the centre sheet anchor was landed prior to the mission, while the two regular bow anchors remained on ...
- Tue May 31, 2005 3:08 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: SONAR in the ship
- Replies: 59
- Views: 23613
SONAR and hydrophones are seperate technologies. The former is an active detection system using high frequency sound, the other is a passive listening device with directional capabilities. Hydrophones were developed in WW1 and SONAR came along in the interwar years. By the 1930s Germany had its own ...
- Wed May 25, 2005 11:23 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Artillery Incident on 23 May 1941, 2044 hours?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10149
Well, the actual number of radars put out of action during the firing at Norfolk does need some clarification. The most I have read is that the forward radar was put out of action preventing Bismarck from scanning forward in poor visibility. This would indicate to me that either both forward radars ...
- Wed May 25, 2005 2:35 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
An interesting aspect of the torpedo problem as experienced by the Germans in the first two years of the war is the failure not only of the magnetic detonators, but also the contact ones. In the latter case the firing trigger was incorporated in the blades of the arming impellor on the nose of the t...
- Sat May 21, 2005 12:23 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
- Fri May 20, 2005 11:21 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
Bill, I most certainly agree that these spaces would be difficult to reach and even more difficult to work in if you had to stop leaks. If I recall correctly the boilers took up so much compartment space that they went nearly to the torpedo bulkhead--which was the reason given for the wireway/passag...
- Fri May 20, 2005 3:03 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
- Thu May 19, 2005 8:35 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
Bill, Oh yes! I see what you are talking about. I wonder what the reasoning was behind that, or if it was simply an oversight in the rush to build the ship. I wonder why the inner boundary of the outboard void was attached slightly above the double bottom on the torpedo bulkhead instead of curving d...
- Thu May 19, 2005 6:25 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289879
- Wed May 11, 2005 4:30 am
- Forum: Naval Technology
- Topic: Yaw and shell flight.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9473
Bill, I have a question on topic, or at least an observation to put forth. If I recall correctly the 16in 50s and the 16in 45s were originally designed to fire the lighter shell were they not, and the adoption of the 2700-lb shell came after the guns themselves were already in production. That being...
- Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:21 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Cost of Bismark and Tirpitz
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9201
My understanding is that one of the main problems was tactical control of the carriers air arm. The Navy and Luftwaffe could never get past that debate. I would imagine that other problems would have included designing catapults, and other specialized equipment, but I have not read up on the German ...
- Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:49 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Cost of Bismark and Tirpitz
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9201
Erich Gröner's Die Deutschen Kriegschiffe states the cost of Bismarck as being RM 196,8 million; Tirpitz is listed as RM181,6 million. I would presume this is the cost of the completed ship with armour and weapons. Yard estimates would not normally inlude weapons, except for installaion costs acrued...