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In comparing "Sydney" with "Belfast" you are really looking at two different types of ships . The "Apollos" ("Sydney") were the jump to a much improved type of Light cruiser , following the completion of the WW1 programmes . As the Light cruiser in British ser...

I dont know much about deep ocean conditions , but it is going to be very chill down there on both these wreck sites , and totally black-dark . I wonder if conditions will be so very different at the two sites . You can compare with shallower tropical wreck degredation because we have the Truk lagoo...

Hola Juan , and welcome to the forum . We tend to go off topic quite a lot here ( well I do ) , someone starts a thread asking if Admiral Lutjens cat was neutered , and three pages on we are arguing whether Amundsen's trip through the Northwest passage should count because Gjoia was only an overgrow...

While playing "Hunt the harbour" all around Europe , using Google Earth , for Terje the other day , I passed by this place , (where the " Blucher " got short shrift in 1940 ), and looked at a lot of the linked photos posted there . There are still three big coast defence guns on ...

One of the new nuclear plants is due to come to Sizewell to replace/add capacity to two existing Reactors there , on the Suffolk coast , not far from here , and the local "Tree huggers" are already up in arms about it . Yet at this time we are told that my immediate area must construct ano...

The British "Town" class introduced the triple 6inch turret instead of the previous twins (Appollos/Leanders/Arethusas) in beamier hulls , in response to bigger foreign cruiser designs outclassing our own . At the same time the spotting aircraft stowage was increased and the planes far bet...

The ships were structurally too weak , with low freeboard from the break of the forecasle aft , and extended distant water cruises pre-war as "show the flag exercises" caused weather damage in open ocean storm conditions , requiring varying degrees of reconstruction . Their power plant of ...

Well Terje , Ive spent about 12 hours on Google Earth going round every harbour from Bordeaux right around to Konigsberg/Kaliningrad , and there are only two candidates . Frederikstad , just around the "Skaw" --> Skagen , on the tip of Denmark , just inside the Kattegat . As a Danish Naval...

the ( False ) U-boat sighting alarm , which caused the British ships Dorsetshire and Mashona to hurriedly leave the scene , Correction - Maori, not Mashona. Sorry , "them Tribals all look the same to me !" ( That politically incorrect racist joke was jointly sponsored by the British Natio...

The deck plan I have for Kormoran ( From "German Raiders of WW2" by Karl August Muggenthaler ISBN 0 330 26204 1 - Pan Books paperback edtn of 1980 ) shows the deck features and armament layout as follows ; A short raised forecastle has a single 20mm on the centreline just aft of the hawsep...

I know of no research specifically on Bismark , but you are looking at a wreck there with large areas of heavy plating , let alone the extensive armour , the subdivision , etc . Looking at the salvaged U S N " Monitor " of 1860 gives you some indicators as to how long the heavier bits will...

I tend to think the vast majority of Bismarck's crew got off the ship or were got to the upper decks. I doubt that many died below decks and those that did probably died in the fires they had been sent to fight, so their bodies would have burned up. The dead and the dying would have floated away as...

It is only in recent years that we have begun to see that there is a remarkable amount of life and life forms even in the deepest of the ocean abysses . As well as the visible fish , etc , microscopic analysis has shown that there is also a large population of the tiny things , right down to single ...

Jolly interesting campaign , the Mediterranean , pretty much non-stop action right through , and quite evenly matched so the pendulum of advantage swung from one side to the other continuously throughout . After 1943 and the Italian surrender Germany took over most of the Important Island Garrisons ...

The Sabre had gone out even during the Civil war , on both sides , as a weapon . Several of the European military observers commented ( disparagingly ) on that , the British one reported something like " Their cavalry fights are the most miserable affairs imaginable - both sides canter up into...