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Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Beleive it or not, there is still a monitor type ship still in service with the Brazilian Navy.
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HMVS Cerberus should have been saved, same as Huascar.Beleive it or not, there is still a monitor type ship still in service with the Brazilian Navy.
By October 1916 the ship was repaired and operational once more.
I find it extremely difficult discussing British Battlecruisers without writing a 5,000 word essay on the subject.
And not piling charges around the turret in order to make a faster than spec ROF and thus canceling out the designed-in anti-flash features.So....had RN had proper shells and proper communication and fought a full on night action then the High Seas Fleet would be on the sea bed in 1916.
I always wondered how it worked inside those things.And not piling charges around the turret in order to make a faster than spec ROF and thus canceling out the designed-on anti-flash features.
"It was always suspected that the system of anti-flash doors would be compromised by an obsession with speed. Confirmed by divers' inspections of the wrecks of the Queen Mary, the Invincible and the Indefatigable later in the century was that the silk cordite bags were brought up from the magazines and stacked in the passageways below the guns. "
Battleship Design and Anti Flash | The Battle of Jutland - Centenary Initiative
Here's the way a RN BB/BC's guns are supposed to be served. I imagine had this been followed that Queen Mary might have survived.
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Good vid of British battleships showing the cage. When HMS Lion's X-turret exploded almost 100 men died - it's hard to imagine over 100 men men working in and below these turrets.
An interesting point, when the loaded the guns, they had to fire them. There's no easy way to extract the shell and charges.That can't be a fun place to work.
Absolutely. For starters, of all the battleships of the Grand Fleet at Jutland only one, HMS Colossus (commanded by the future Sir Dudley Pound) took any damage, when two 11" shells causes minor damage. Beatty's force took a lot of casualties, but nothing like a morning on the Somme. Service on a British dreadnought is mostly boredom, but you have a warm hammock and three meals a day.Better than the mud of the Somme.
That no lie.
Indeed. Apparently coal fires could remain undetected whilst they burned next to magazines. Though Mutsu blew up and was oil fired.What ship you on?
HMS Vanguard.
Oh Bother.
Indeed. Apparently coal fires could remain undetected whilst they burned next to magazines. Though Mutsu blew up and was oil fired.