Re: OT-Wrong port arthur

1866 - hazy memory forgiven.

Wasn't this the battle in which the ramming of a single Italian ship
caused every navy to build their ironclads with ram bows for the next 30
years ?

Ground Zero Games wrote:
> 
> >And, not only were the baltic fleet content with putting shells into
one
> >their own cruisers, but when they were off the west coast of africa,
they
> >did some target practice with the BBs, and the only thing they hit
(they
> >only hit with one shell) was their destroyer that was towing the
target! I
> >don`t think you could make up a more incompetent navy even in
fiction.
> 
> The Italian fleet at Lissa (1860 or 66? Hazy memory, no ref book to
> hand...) came pretty damn close.... ;-)
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
> >Anybody got any more info on these clowns?
> >
> >BIF
> >"yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
> >strong in arms, thick in head"

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