Re: [GZG] Naming NSL

Given the circumstances of the sinkings, even more so, though lucky for
Scheer in the first case.

He could have lost more ships, or at least, the Brits might have been
more
aware of the glass chins of their own before Jutland.

Don't know anything about the corvette, though.

The_Beast

PS And, as Blucher always said, stay close the candles, the steps can be
twrecherous...

John on 03/15/2007 08:36:02 AM:

> He had a British locomotive named after him, as well as a
> German corvette launched in 1877, an armored cruiser
> launched in 1908
> that was sunk by British battlecruisers at the Battle of
> Dogger Bank,
> and an armored cruiser launched in 1937 that was sunk during the
> invasion of Norway in 1940.
>
> Personally, I think that's an amazingly unlucky ship name,
> but that's just me.

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