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- Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:34 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
- Replies: 150
- Views: 115913
Re: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
This is an objective issue, not to mention our favorite vessel but to think about which one was more successfull or wasn´t. Doing so having in mind that the warships accomplished the tasks they were design/built/operated for. Or don´t. I´m going to mention some of them (but not all and not in any s...
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:09 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Reverse into Bay of Biscay?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 30346
Did you ignore my post about trying to free the rudder, the vibration in the rudder room caused by reversing screws, etc? And the fact that they DID try to steer with the screws and gave up in favor of a more stable heading to provide a stable gun platform and enable further attempts to disengage t...
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:43 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289579
Re: Bismarck construction flaws
This subject is often discussed in military and naval circles. Can somebody enumerate Bismarck construction flaws and their possible impact on the ship's final demise? In the final analysis there is no such thing as the perfect or unsinkable ship. Neither can you legislate for Sods Law. I think the...
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:32 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289579
The rudder design was also a problem long before it got hit by a torpedo. It jammed once before and had virtually no manual override. The push button steering was not all that good without an effective override. Sort of like the Airbus. I believe that a temprory rudder jam occured on Bismarck in th...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:01 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: What would Halsey or Nimitz have done?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3104
What would Halsey or Nimitz have done?
Picture this - US battleship Texas is in Japanese controlled waters in early 1942, with either Halsey/Nimitz on board. Texas is alone, its steering smashed and with the prevailing sea conditions can only head towards Japan at slow speed. The US admiral knows that Yamato and Musashi are closing in to...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:47 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Tirpitz instead of Scharnhorst in North Cape
- Replies: 65
- Views: 35481
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:41 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Capt Kennedy of Rawalpindi
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16045
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:32 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Musashi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3050
the US technical mission to Japan stated IIRC that if 4 torpedoes had hit Musashi on one side and none on the other, she most likely would have sunk. The reason she stayed afloat so long was the incredibly even distribution of hits, making counterflooding pretty much unnecessary. Yes you're right, ...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:27 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Number of ships sunk by Deutschland/Lützow
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3499
Re: Tirpitz
Unfortunately Lutzow was responsible with Adm Hipper of the worst attack to a convoy ( Op. Regenbogen against JW51 ) that costed KM warships to be dismantled, Adm Raeder dismissal, ... all done by Hitler with the help of Adm Donitz, .... than Scharnhorst disaster :( and,.. Tirpitz abandoned to her ...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:16 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Number of ships sunk by Deutschland/Lützow
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3499
Re: Number of ships sunk by Deutschland/Lützow
How many ships did the ship sunk? As far as I know only 2: Stonegate (5044 BRT) (10/09/39) Lorentz W. Hansen (1918 BRT) (10/14/39) plus the capture of the City of Flint (4963 BRT) (10/09/39). 11925 BRT, including 2 NEUTRAL ships :oops:, not very good... Add to the tally approx. 700 Soviet tanks dst...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:12 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Number of ships sunk by Deutschland/Lützow
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3499
Re: Number of ships sunk by Deutschland/Lützow
Of course, with the exception of the Graf Spee, the other heavy units of the Kriegsmarine did no better (like the ones on WWI - laying in harbour, one battle, laying in harbour - no strategic victory) Panzerschiff Admiral Scheer did quite well on her commerce raiding cruises - I'd have to look up t...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:05 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Reverse into Bay of Biscay?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 30346
Re: Going Backwards or giving up?
it was possible to point the ship in roughly the right direction on one order for a brief moment Heading the right direction for a brief moment does not compensate for heading the wrong direction all the other moments. Complete the quotation and cut out the wrong moments. I'm not saying it would ha...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:45 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Graf Spee, Scheer, and Lützow vs Yamato
- Replies: 17
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Better yet, how could four ships manage to come from four different bearings if they hadn´t speed advantage? Yamato would only concentrate her fire on those located ahead, which wouldn´t be able to close, and the 1 kt speed advantage over the Germans would gather the four of them on her wake. I sai...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:40 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: H-Klasse Battleship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10295
In theory, the H-Class despicted in the fictional comparison photo above was a 130,000 ton behemoth (almost twice of an Yamato and more than twice an Iowa) with so much armour the Allies woud need to throw an atomic bomb from a B-29 to do any harm to her. A bomb like the one thrown to Tirpitz would...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:34 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Ajax vs. Leipzig
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3601