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by pgollin
Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:04 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

. AND HOW WERE BEARINGS AND DISTANCE MEASURED/ESTIMATED ? It is noticeable that bearings are given in 5-degree increments, so EVEN WITH ACCURATE METHODS, these cover a 5-degree arc ( + / - 2.5-degrees ). Now were those readings estimates by lookouts with hand-held binoculars, or readings from fixed ...
by pgollin
Fri Aug 22, 2014 12:59 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

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No.

ALL WW2 "radar directed shooting" had to find the balance between the radar range and the gun range.
by pgollin
Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:31 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

. IF your ideas about the absolute perfection of reported ranges and bearings are correct, how do you explain ; 1: The inability of all ships to hit their enemies with their first shots, as all the firing solutions would be perfect. 2: The necessity for the officer in charge of the fire control tabl...
by pgollin
Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:02 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

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I will repeat, IF you use that sort of language in your book it will suffer.

There is nothing wrong in putting forward a re-interpretation, you merely need an editor with good technical or colloquial english skills.

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by pgollin
Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:41 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

. Antonio, Your ideas concerning he conspiracy outside the enquiry is ludicrous. Maybe more helpfully, if you use the same sort of language (about conspiracies and actions, etc....) in your book that you use here then all your research will be of no use as the reviewers will dismiss your book out of...
by pgollin
Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:10 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

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Antonio,

IF you have seen the files, then you will know that there is a FULL shorthand transcript of what was said.

Now I don't read shorthand, but presumably IF you are claiming some sort of cover up you have checked ?

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by pgollin
Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:45 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: PoW 14in guns out of action
Replies: 16
Views: 7895

Re: PoW 14in guns out of action

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A very good question Alberto.

The Fire Control Manual meant that almost any fire could be ordered, or assumed.

Unfortunately, whilst we have a reasonably detailed gunnery report, we don't have the proper detail.

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by pgollin
Sat Jul 26, 2014 7:21 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

. When drawing up a complicated post action plot whoever does it will have to try to make a "best fit" of different ships information (especially ranges to other ships). At any time one ship might have several ranges to an enemy ship, the range finder(s) distance, the rdf/radar range and t...
by pgollin
Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:13 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Force Z
Replies: 68
Views: 10417

Re: Force Z

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NO !

Indomitable was NEVER intended to be there in December, she was due out later.
by pgollin
Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:08 pm
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: The Plot
Replies: 1235
Views: 103339

Re: The Plot

. There were various "plots" in RN ships (depending on size/equipment). The Fire Control Table on larger ships produced and automatic plot, and there was (rare early in the war, widespread by late war) an automatic plot as part of the AIO (Action Information Organisation/Office), in additi...
by pgollin
Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:04 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Why was USN cruiser shooting so poor?
Replies: 93
Views: 35490

Re: Why was USN cruiser shooting so poor?

. A simple answer is that it wasn't - all navies' shooting was poor in WW2, it is just that the theoreticians/wargamers have skewed many peoples' perception of what was achievable - the worst example being people who take training shoots as some direct indication of what would happen in a real battl...
by pgollin
Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:08 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship
Replies: 55
Views: 11458

Re: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship

. Anson was a ridiculous weight by the end of the war - the DNC did a study and found that the main increase in weight in the last two years of war was "unknown" ! DNC could trace what was officially in the "A and A's" - but that was the minority of weight. First an awful lot of ...
by pgollin
Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:29 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: Could the RN have built Two lion class before the end of WW2
Replies: 14
Views: 5763

Re: Could the RN have built Two lion class before the end of

. A large part of the Admiralty file deals with possible enemies. Only the Russians are thought of as being capable of building something worth even considering and they are dismissed as being in even a worse economic condition than the UK (this was part of the "1955 at earliest" planning ...
by pgollin
Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:52 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship
Replies: 55
Views: 11458

Re: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship

. 1: So, IF the Iowas are nominally 48,000 tons, do we increase the limit in the thread title to 48,000, or what do we leave off the Iowa to make them acceptable ? 2: IF we accept Bismarck at 43,000 tons and H-class as 53,000 tons, what do we pick and choose. At 45,000 tons it would seem obvious to ...
by pgollin
Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:33 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship
Replies: 55
Views: 11458

Re: Best choice for 45000 tons battleship

. I have always assumed that the H-Class battleships design was pretty much "done" as at least one was, just about, laid down - is this correct ? (This is certainly the case in regards to the 1939 Lions.) IF so, what "improvements" from the H-class would have been worked into a m...