Re: [GZG] John's Shipbuilding

["Eric Foley" <stiltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Urk.  Destroyers might not have had the endurance.  I'm not awake today.  I 
stand corrected most likely.

E

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Foley" <stiltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [GZG] John's Shipbuilding


> The Bismarck's cruising speed was something like 28-32 knots.   There were 
> relatively few British ships that were able to keep up with it.  The King 
> George V class, battlecruisers, and true cruisers on both sides were able 
> to stay with it, nothing that was able to match up with it very well in a 
> straight fight.  The British battlecruisers were always envisioned as 
> cruiser-killers and not things that were intended to stay up against real 
> battleships, except that nobody seemed to ever tell the Admiralty that, 
> and numerous instances in which they suffered catastrophic magazine 
> explosions in such fights from armor that wasn't able to trade hits with 
> battleships at all needed to happen before the Admiralty figured it out 
> for themselves.
>
> So yes, the Prinz Eugen and German destroyers were perfectly capable of 
> staying with the Bismarck.
>
> E
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <damosan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [GZG] John's Shipbuilding
>
>
> > > First, the German Navy had a minimal surface combatant force and as a
> > > result focused on fast ships intended for independant commerce raiding
> > > rather than decisive engagements with the RN's battleline.  Second,
> > > the decision to ditch the escorts early on, which baffles me.
> >
> > Your first statement answers the second I think.  The Bismark was built 
> > as a fast commerce raider wasn't it?  Did German escort vessels have the 
> > range/endurance to keep up with B. while out at sea for any length of 
> > time?
> >
> > --
> > Damo
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