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The heat would cause steam and there you have an environmentally friendly smoke screen.

I don't think they have anything to do with ammo storage any more. The polish dwg's are of a late 1943 ship. All the text, what little of it there is, is in German. I have got to say, I have been posting to the wrong forum. Before this week all my questions were posted to the Scharnhorst forum at bi...

I will concur that the term lucky is unneccessarily vague, in this case as there can be different kinds of luck. The german bb's and bc's were unlucky because they never had a chance to live up to their potential, but others were unlucky because they went from mishap to mishap and ended their days p...

I have been trying to think of how to anser this question before you even asked it. Without sounding like I am saying I know more than anyone ( :D cuz I don't) I will say I have been researching the scharnhorst everyday for the better part of a year now. One of the biggest problems I have had is kno...

So while we are in agreement that they are not ammo hoists, the question remains, what are they? They do not correspond to anything below decks. They are too big to be ready use lockers for individual rounds and there would only be 14 rounds to divide between six barrels. They are too small to be tu...

Something else I will point out is that the circles scale out to .25 meters diameter, but the smallest diameter plate that 5 105mm shells would fit on is .44 meters, nearly double the size. But now that I know what ready use racks (I am a tank modeller normally, ships are new for me) I think three o...

I do not think I am being fascetious when I say there aren't any. At least not available to me. If anyone else can find some and scan them, great, but I am not holding my breath, she is a very hard ship to find pictures of.

Their effect was far more than being psychological. Their effect went way beyond what they actually acheived at sea, which is the narrow parameter you are taking. Add to the ships sunk and damaged the effect on the Allied war effort and grand strategy, the resources put into achieving destruction o...

I have a question and need some input from you guys. I am working on a CAD model of the Scharnhorst and ran into this dilemma. This is from the best set of Scharnhorst drawings I can find: http://www.tankwerkz.com/Scharnhorst/images/unknown.jpg This is the deck below Scharnhorst's main boat racks on...

Neither do I think the four German battleships achieve next to nothing. Collectively they sank a battlecruiser, an aircraft carrier, two destroyers, twenty two merchant ships and damaged another battlecruiser plus another two battleships. In addition to that there are the strategic dislocations to ...

I am going to agree with Gneisenau. When first laid down, Hitler decided she and her sister needed to be bigger so the original keel was scrapped. After a re-design and re-build, she was launched only to have her stopping gear fail to deploy causing her to crash into the pier on the opposite side of...

I hope it is okay to point a couple areas that you missed. If not I apologize, but there are some things I am trying to figure out. These are mostly minor things, but I am hoping to open up some discussion on them to check the accuracy of my research. Unfortunately, most of my research is in the way...