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Anyway, I guess PoW hit on Bismarck's bow is overstimated. I mean, we know the ship could anyway perform her maximum speed during the Denmarck Strait battle, after had received the hit. It is true that speed, later, had to be limited anyway because of the fuel comsumption, but I don't think the brit...

The Dutch strikes back...

foeth wrote:Michiel de Ruyter of course

I would have expected it...

None of you citized Francis Drake, but I think he was worth to stay among the other great seamen.What do you think about him?

So, one evening I noticed that Rodney was equipped with two 609mm torpedo tubes.
I guess how I could have ignored it...

If you take crew training into account, of course the equation changes. Well, in effect you have to count the crew...Iif I'm not mistaken Nelson once said that the "dons" (you know don is tha spanish for lord) build great ships, but they were unable to build up crews too...;) Go straight ...

The number of guns are only part of the equation of which ship is most powerful. To serve 140 guns was an enormous job. The 74's and 100's probably out-gunned any 140. :lol: I don't understand. Perhaps you can be more specific? On the surface of it, that seems silly, presuming the 140 has a proport...

miro777 wrote: wasn't the HMS Rodney, the first battleship to use torpedoes in combat (in the final battle agaisnt the Bismarck)?

No, it was HMS Dorsetshire which torpedoed Bismarck.I don't think Rodney class battleships had torpedo tubes, isn't it?

No,Bismarck was not given of torpedo launching tubes...

About Tirpitz, which was given of two four-tubes apparatus placed under the aircraft cranes, look here:

http://www.kbismarck.com/tirpitz.html

and for the Italians on many situations was even more clear. :( :( :( The most amazing thing regarding Italians High Command is that no one, apart rare examples as Admiral Romeo Bernotti, had the honesty to recognize the responsability of the highers level of the supreme command, the so called Supe...

Indeed, the Dutchies had some very skilled admirals, like Maarten Tromp and Michiel Adrianzsoon De Ruyter, who died in the waters in front of Augusta during a battle and performed a very brave action on the river Thames stealing the vessel Royal Charles from the Britons.Both great seaman...

Not necessarily. The Iowas for example, had twin rudders and were very handy. The Fletcher class DD turning radius was actually GREATER than that of the BBs. But manuverability was probably the worst characteristic of the Fletchers. But they also had four screw and 212.000 HP of engine power.I didn...

Hello Bob, I did not Xerox Antonio’s map on a commercial printer as suggested. I scanned the key portion of the map with my Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner and I enlarged the area about 4 x using my Photoshop 7 software. Well, I'm not a specialist, and if I commited any mistake in my reasoning I...

The only problem that I have with your map is the separation between the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen at 0556, which you increased to 2343 yards from your earlier version showing only 1275 yards. May be this is due to the fact that the vertical scaling of the map is different from the orizzontal one.Re...

I was thinking today, reading the facts of the battle on the waters off Cape Matapan the night of march 28th 1941 that I really like the name of Cunningham's flagship: Warspite...

Antoni Bonomi in Vicomercato fecit Anno Domini...





I'm anxious to have news of this project.Indeed, I have all the will to restart to build models as soon as university would leave me free time...