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Big Duke Six said:
The Rodney and Nelson had 16" guns. I served on a ship that had 6" guns. If you were caught taking a Shite in the for'ard heads when one was fired , you ended up covered in rust and paint chips . True dit.
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They had a 16" gun inside Fort Nelson, but it was a rail mounted howitzer. Nowt to do with ships. Canny impressive nonetheless mind.
 


Paddy O'Dors said:
I think the shell that sunk Glorious was the longest that's ever been fired from a battleship and ended up hitting the target.

HMS Glorious – The cover up of Churchill’s Operation Paul

On the 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts, HMS Ardent and Acasta were sunk, returning home from Norway, by the German battlecruisers; Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 1,519 British sailors, marines and airmen died in the Royal Navy’s worst loss of WWII.
www.hmsglorious.com www.hmsglorious.com
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f***ing hell what a great read that is. You wonder how we won when you read stuff like that. And to think the Germans got access to French iron ore just weeks later too!!

Those brave pilots saving all the hurricanes too only to see them all sink.
 
RokerLegend said:
f***ing hell what a great read that is. You wonder how we won when you read stuff like that. And to think the Germans got access to French iron ore just weeks later too!!

Those brave pilots saving all the hurricanes too only to see them all sink.
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very brave - but i (and them as well no doubt) would have sacrificed all those hurricanes and then some if it had meant a competent CO had a ready patrol of even 3 planes either spotted on deck or actually flying

you'd replace a squadron of hurricanes in about a week, a fleet carrier in about 3 years
 
Scotty said:
very brave - but i (and them as well no doubt) would have sacrificed all those hurricanes and then some if it had meant a competent CO had a ready patrol of even 3 planes either spotted on deck or actually flying

you'd replace a squadron of hurricanes in about a week, a fleet carrier in about 3 years
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The Admiral on the Devonshire too - what a no win scenario he had. Help the Glorious or take his Royal Cargo to safety. From the log he was obviously of the mind to help but must have thought better of it.

Shocking the scale of the cover up and that it was the Germans who revealed the heroics of Ardent and Acasta
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
I think the shell that sunk Glorious was the longest that's ever been fired from a battleship and ended up hitting the target.

HMS Glorious – The cover up of Churchill’s Operation Paul

On the 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts, HMS Ardent and Acasta were sunk, returning home from Norway, by the German battlecruisers; Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. 1,519 British sailors, marines and airmen died in the Royal Navy’s worst loss of WWII.
www.hmsglorious.com www.hmsglorious.com
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Thanks for that, something I never knew about.
 
RokerLegend said:
f***ing hell what a great read that is. You wonder how we won when you read stuff like that. And to think the Germans got access to French iron ore just weeks later too!!

Those brave pilots saving all the hurricanes too only to see them all sink.
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Tragic.. and concerning to find out that two of the Admirals involved were nick-named "Nutty" and "Wrong-Way"
 
gluepot said:
Tragic.. and concerning to find out that two of the Admirals involved were nick-named "Nutty" and "Wrong-Way"
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Useless c*nts with big mouths and powerful friends often prosper in the armed forces - during peacetime!

They very quickly get found out during any prolonged conflict, although many 'soldiered' manfully on in WW1.

Thankfully, the British managed to rotate many of the incompetents early in WW2
 

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