Re: [GZG] John's Shipbuilding

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@teleport.com>
To: <gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu>
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@comcast.net>
> To: <gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu>
> 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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