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- Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9232
Re: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
About the speed capabilities of the old ex-USN ships, I recently read in Conways Fighting Ships that the Belgrano was torpedoed while sailng at 10 kt. Can anyone confirm this?
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:51 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: 2,000 tons of seawater in Bismarck's forecastle!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16738
Re: 2,000 tons of seawater in Bismarck's forecastle!
I would say that multiplying the surface of the compartments by the water depth in them. One cubit meter of water equals about one (metric) ton, which is close to the Imperial ton.
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:43 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12930
Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
I disagree Robert, they have no way of knowing if they would hit or pass, in fact they almost avoided the iceberg, the stem didn't hit ice. They did their best.
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:04 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12930
Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
The witnesses testimonies that described the hull fracturing were dismissed as coming from no expert people. Those of the surviving crew describing the ship going down in one piece were kept.
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:41 am
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9232
Re: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
why didn't Admiral Aneya try it? Well, Robert, I think that´s obvious, he didn´t consult me!!! Now, seriously: 1-I don´t know if the old destroyers had the 30 kt dash speed capability. they were almost 40 years old by then and I don´t know the state of boilers and turbines. 2-An operation of that k...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:35 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9232
Falklands/Malvinas war naval scenario
As you may know, this month it is 26 years of the South Atlantic war. In the local forums have been a lot of activity around it, and I imagined this scenario: On May 21st an English force landed on the Falkland Sound. The sound is 10 nm wide and about 25 nm long in its northern part, separated from ...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:48 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12930
Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
Hi Karl, good to see you too. As I remember, nobody actually saw the stern rupturing, the ship´s lights were already gone, and a few (crew mainly) said the ship went down in one piece. That was the prevailing idea prior to Ballard´s finding. Then after finding the ship broken and reassesing the evid...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:10 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12930
Re: RMS Titanic´s anniversary
Hi guys: I want to add some comentaries as found in Garzke´s Titanic ships titanic disasters: -It is nonsense trying to hit the iceberg head-on. They had no way of knowing if the ship would avoid the iceberg or would strike it, so that if every time a ship is in a similar danger the crew would aim f...
- Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Interesting Bomber Data Outcome...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3355
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:58 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25855
- Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:16 am
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25855
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:50 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25855
- Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:55 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25855
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: Naval Weapons
- Topic: Luftwaffe torpedo planes
- Replies: 49
- Views: 25855
Luftwaffe´s torpedo planes
Hi all:
Anybody knows which planes the Luftwaffe managed to use as torpedo planes? How many ships did they take with them?
Thanks in advance
Regards to all
Anybody knows which planes the Luftwaffe managed to use as torpedo planes? How many ships did they take with them?
Thanks in advance
Regards to all
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:11 am
- Forum: Naval Propulsion
- Topic: Variable pitch propellers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14725