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Hi Byron and TTTT, I cannot locate any bathymetry for the Drobak Narrows but I suspect that since this is a drowned glacial fjord the deepwater extends to quite close to the shore, so the "channel" is quite wide. The wreck is in 90-65 m of water and photographs of her sinking show her clos...

Hello TTTT, But they could also be able to land the troops and just turn around without re-fueling The nature of amphibious operations is that your forces will require continuous re-supply and that means retaining local maritime (and air) control to allow further ammunition and fuel to be delivered ...

Hello TTTT, I am perplexed by As it was, the short range basically doomed the destroyers. The Germans had already got an oiler Jan Wellem , in position in Narvik Harbour, pretending to be an innocent merchant ship on passage from Murmansk to Germany, but actually with a stock of fuel for Bonte's shi...

Hi Steve, Thanks for your approval of my efforts to keep things in touch with reality. It is clear Putin realizes the value of using high-profile "mouthpieces" with their own (different) personal agenda to destabilize faith in unbiased established news sources amongst the people of the wor...

Hi All, Scott Ritter, now he is out of jail, frequently writes for RT News RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, an autonomous non-profit organization founded by the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novost Jeffrey Sachs' speculations, when challenged, have no supporting evidence. Go to https://www.dw.com/...

Hi All, I'm not sure our current Prime Minister is in control of the UK let alone wanting to control Russia! Access to the plentiful natural resources has been easy and straightforward, because the Russians have been perfectly happy to sell them to us since Glasnost. Equally, they have been very hap...

Hi Steve, It has been said: the true goal is to ultimately seize control of Russia and, by implication, the lucrative profits to be drawn from its abundant natural resources. That's not me speculating; that's what the above-mentioned gentlemen are postulating. I'm confused. Who exactly are the "...

Hello Bill, I'm sure you are right. However, Surigao Strait was a night engagement so I imagine there may have been some value in an unusual use of tracer. The original question was about Scharnhorst's final battle, also conducted in pitch darkness, and the RN Gunnery pocketbook makes some mention o...

Hello Bill, Can you give your opinion on the reference I posted back on Feb 4th? https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/OP%201664,%20US%20Explosive%20Ordnance,%20Volume%201.pdf#page=145 Page 62 & 63 of the document I referenced on Tuesday there is a sectional drawing of a 16" projectile with the Mk 5...

Hi Byron and all, Thanks for the link to that academic paper, a mighty piece of work which considers many and varied points of view including Professor Seligman's. I fudged the date as 1912/13 because although that official nomenclature is dated 1913 and the award of contract letter for the building...

Hi HMSVF, You posed the question: I suppose as "specialty" ships they were more vulnerable to the "winds of change"? The wind of change being the battlecruiser? However there was no such thing as a Battlecruiser until 1912/13! As I have already mentioned, everything built from In...

Hi Hans, A book called Gema: Birthplace of German Radar and Sonar by Harry von Kroge might be your best source. From the pages available via Google "Look Inside" trials of naval radar (initially called EM-2 Entfernungsmessgerat) were demonstrated to Raeder, Carls and Witzell as early as 26...

Hi Paul, HMSVF et al, The Nelsons aren't a fair comparison, the Washington Treaty limited displacement and to get the guns and armour required the power which could be installed (at that time) was extremely limited. The QEs were a nominal 25 knot design, 4 knots faster than previous Dreadnought desi...

Hi All, It was interesting reading the McCartney chapter on Black Prince and sad to think of the emotional trial for the relatives of crew members as the ship had just "disappeared" with no-one on the British side knowing of her fate, and the horrible dawning realisation when the first Ger...

Hi All,

OK Arbuthnot is zipped.

However, I think we have done good work in identifying HMS Duke of Edinburgh as the ship in the mystery photo (at least to my satisfaction), and linking it to the LCS account. I intend to annotate my copies of Liddle and McCartney.

All the best

wadinga