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by RF
Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:19 am
Forum: The Dreadnought Era (1906-1921)
Topic: The surrender of the High Seas Fleet remembered
Replies: 16
Views: 27897

Re: The surrender of the High Seas Fleet remembered

Or perhaps most likely the assumption that the Germans wouldn't do anything - the indiscipline and lack of pride in their uniforms of the naval crews following the Kiel naval mutinies gave the impression that the German fleet was no longer a capable military force, not even in sinking their own ships.
by RF
Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:41 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: How close was the final battle?
Replies: 256
Views: 2559060

Re: How close was the final battle?

In Denmark Strait, with a perfectly controllable ship, she hit Hood with one out of 24 shells fired (?, 6 salvos of 4 guns?), what gives a standard 5% hit rate. Regards There were three hits that we know about - one on the third salvo starting/adding to the fire on the midships section immediately ...
by RF
Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:31 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: Hypothetical: The British detect Bismarck with a ship-borne Walrus at 0900 on 25 May 1941.
Replies: 50
Views: 26066

Re: Hypothetical: The British detect Bismarck with a ship-borne Walrus at 0900 on 25 May 1941.

paul.mercer wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:42 pm

The facts are that had Bismarck not taken a hit in her rudder I don't think any of the RN ships would have got near her
I think that is the crux of the matter.
by RF
Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:02 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore
Replies: 7
Views: 4759

Re: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore

Best shot would be to go to the Marconi museum archives and try to find out what records are there regarding transhipment of the radio, once the contracted ship name is identified it can be looked up in the Lloyds shipping registry (assuming the ship was British). Hi RF, thank you for this, I've no...
by RF
Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore
Replies: 7
Views: 4759

Re: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore

Best shot would be to go to the Marconi museum archives and try to find out what records are there regarding transhipment of the radio, once the contracted ship name is identified it can be looked up in the Lloyds shipping registry (assuming the ship was British).
by RF
Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore
Replies: 7
Views: 4759

Re: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore

Fatboy Coxy wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:40 pm ..... but it was lost at sea when the supply ship was torpedoed and sunk".
Sounds to me as being sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic.

Automedon was sunk by scuttling charges not torpedo after being thoroughly looted by the Atlantis, any capture of a radio would have been documented.
by RF
Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
Topic: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore
Replies: 7
Views: 4759

Re: What ship lost carrying 100 kW Transmitter to Singapore

Where is the information about this transmitter being transported coming from? The Alfred Holt ship Automedon was captured by KMS Atlantis in the Indian Ocean on 11 November 1940 along with its secret mails addressed to the C in C Singapore, however no mention made of a radio transmitter, if this is...
by RF
Tue Jan 03, 2023 10:47 am
Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
Topic: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Replies: 7
Views: 2866

Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

May 2023 usher in a return to sanity in our chaotic world. Byron We can wish it but sadly I can't see things happening at all. There seems little incentive to do so, if you take the Ukraine war as a yardstick there are no moves to end it, no prospect of negotiatons. The stalemate will drag on. As U...
by RF
Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:23 pm
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

Yes, there is a danger of going off thread, however the issues in my previous post do directly relate to the Norwegian campaign. With respect to Marschall, yes again it is easy to speculate. However Renown quickly degraded Gneisenau's gunnery and with Admiral Whitworth having some 12 destroyers in c...
by RF
Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:04 pm
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

For a''liberal democracy'' where defence is aimed at deterring attack, securing the Baltic would be a reasonable objective for a Weimar Germany. However we are not dealing with the reasonable, here we have an aggressive expansionist military power consumed with an ideology bent on racial supremacy a...
by RF
Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:24 am
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

Double posting removed.
by RF
Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:23 am
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

Back at Narvik, Haarr is very critical that Bey did not try to get some of his ships away before Warspite and co arrived and wiped them out. There is another aspect to this - a couple of torpedo hits on Warspite and that battle is transformed - though this is with hindsight with ten destroyers avai...
by RF
Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:52 pm
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

wadinga wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:00 pm
Flares and searchlights could have been used to illuminate the Drombak Narrows
A searchlight illuminated Blucher so Eriksen could fire on it.
Either I will be decorated, or I will be court-martialed. Fire!
I believe he got both, albeit not at the same time....
by RF
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:45 am
Forum: Naval Technology
Topic: High towers on Japanese battleships
Replies: 16
Views: 3030

Re: High towers on Japanese battleships

Rather like the Tay Bridge....
by RF
Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:42 am
Forum: Naval History in General
Topic: Operation Weserübung - why
Replies: 30
Views: 4913

Re: Operation Weserübung - why

Considering the tools at hand, I think the Norwegians did well. Strictly my opinion, of course. Byron With a more modern torpedo battery with more torpedoes the whole operation up Oslo Fjord could have been scuppered - the big guns would not be needed, judicious firing from the torpedo battery coul...