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Could the stabilized platform contact the ship structure at all?

No, there was just a 1 m stringer of 20 mm. The deck was 6 mm.

Only over the main armament magazines the armor deck was 100 mm in that compartment.

In the construction flaw thread is mentioned that Bismarck did not have the capability of remote pumping of the forward compartments containing fuel and there was a lack of pumps and valves for fuel protection. In the 2.000 tons water thread Bill wrote: The pump-room on Bismarck, was, incidentally, ...

If you're saying the upper deck was 50 mm over the magazines, everything is fine

The quote you brought for the upper deck armour contradicts the original building plan. 50mm is what is in the original document says, 80mm is what some website claims without giving a source. You decide. You show a typical lack of respect for primary German documents and the people who worked mont...

First. The main problem is NOT in their own countries: this mob can live their desert and flea infected lands. The ones in the West are the main problem, as the danish and french experiences are so much telling us. As the danes are doing obstacles for their inmigration have to be implemented. Then ...

Hi Olaf, there were reserve fuel bunkers in compartement XX-XXII. It was standard procedure to consume this fuel first. I agree that the trim would have been very negative regarding speed. That's why I'm asking. I see absolutely no reason to store fuel in that compartements, if it's avoidable. It ma...

It's an old thread, but this hit is still a mystery to me. Is there any reasonable cause to store fuel oil in compartements XX-XXII on May 24th at all?

Krueger (Krüger) is usually listed as Joachim Krüger. I usually dissolve the Germanic umlaut "ü" into "ue" because it's readable on every computer system.

Dr. Otto Richter was on board Bismarck from August 22th 1940 to March 10th 1941 as "2. Arzt" (second physician) and was replaced by Dr. Hans-Joachim Krueger, who joined the crew on March 3rd 1941. Dr. Richter survived the war.

There was a Marinestabsarzt Dr. Otto Richter. He was transfered before Rheinuebung.

boxy113 wrote:These were rotary cup atomiser type burners with a primary air fan integral to the atomiser and driven by an electric motor mounted on top of the atomiser.

AFAIK the burner was not electric but air driven.

Yes, he was and he is one of them, who could really had this information.

If possible, I try to verify the validity of survivor statements. Trust is good, control better.

Hello Karl, I have no problem with that source. It refers to Statz, who was one of them... Thorsten Wall and David Saxton have adressed this issue before. The hits are improbable. You can search the forum for this; you'll find several conflincting eye-witness reports about those hits. Maybe, but I ...