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RobertsonN wrote: Speculation knows few bounds

True words indeed.

WEST-BOUND ROUTES By far the principal "all season" west-bound route from NW European ports to the Atlantic coast of North America was the "Southern Route" via the English Channel, then SW past the Azores. At about 20degN latitude the route turned W, ultimately veering to the NW ...

How do You come to the conclusion that BISMARCK´s main belt was almost submerged? As far as I understand, it extended rather high above the designed waterline (even higher towards A- and D- turrets) and the flooding sustained more or less equalled the fuel and ammo weights spend before the final ba...

Gentlemen, The article deals with USN fast battleships gunfire. Are things different for other warship types (cruisers, destroyers, etc.) and / or other navies (RN, DKM, etc.)? In other words, is it possible to extrapolate from the article hit chances for a USN cruiser or a foreign battleship ? ......

LÜTZOW, DERFFLINGER, SEYDLITZ and VON DER TANN also were subject to minor or major turret fires after been hit at JUTLAND. In only one case (DERFFLINGER) did the projectile penetrate armour completely going up high order behind armour. The result was also the most severe turret fire involving both ...

So even if all the oil produced makes it to Japan they are getting ~430,000 tons per month and the navy alone is using 305,000 tons. Given that the army needs some, as does industry, and to a lesser extent the civilian populace it doesn't look to me like Japan is getting enough at that point. ........

Just found this thread. So Karl's a gearhead! Who knew??? I have had a very schizophrenic automotive history, which goes like this - Grew up driving Oldsmobiles, which my father was very fond of. Spent most of my teen years driving the family 1960 Olds 88 with 394cid 4bbl and 3-spd turbo-hydramatic ...

Neil Hilton wrote - "A hole in the turret armour does not mean the flash definately will set off the magazines if there is nothing to stop it (although there is a significant chance it will)." ..... The well known hit upon SEYDLITZ at Dogger Bank resulted in about seven tons of propellant ...

To Delcyros's list must be added HMS KENT, which suffered a substantial ammunition fire among ready use ammunition at a secondary casemate gun position during the Battle of the Falklands that flashed down through a hoist to her elow-deckammunition passage and nearly resulted in her destruction. This...