HMS Exeter, whose 8" shells brought the Graf Spee to her knees and led to her scuttling.
Posted on 09/25/2007 7:06:58 PM PDT by Stoat
http://www.deutschland-class.dk/admiral_graf_spee/gallery/gallgrafspeemontevideo.html
Great pictures, thank you very much!
According to the accompanying text, the scuttling charges were placed in the engine rooms and in the belowdeck areas, and since they sunk her in only 23 feet of water it's easy to see how the British forces were able to collect some valuable gear.
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Great site! Thank you very much. Even with the language barrier it's still quite useful for lots of great diagrams, photos and links to English-language sites.
Among the links there, I found one for the Bismarck
KBismarck.com - The Battleship Bismarck
and down at the bottom of that site's homepage is a GREAT video of the ship, from christening, battle footage and to the end
Thank you.....it's all of the great people who have come here that have made it great :-)
Cool!
Perhaps he could play Wagner’s Ride of the Valkries, and fire off a few rounds.
Some years ago a 12’ Missouri visited in our city marina. It was every bit as detailed as a fine purchased plastic model.
Another bump for cool thread, cool models and naval history!
That is truly a thing of beauty!
That may be the coolest thing I’ve seen in quite some time.
I’d love to go fishing in that and see if the game warden messes with me then.
Well, my birthday has passed, but Christmas is just around the corner...
Not a .30-06, it ‘s a rimmed round. It could be a .30-30 with a spitzer bullet loaded. (no primers)
Way cool, but it’s not an R/C :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
HMS Exeter, whose 8" shells brought the Graf Spee to her knees and led to her scuttling.
Looks good, but if I were to spend the time and money I would have done the Bismarck. :-)
IIRC, the HMS Exeter and her consorts got the hell shot of them by the Graf Spee. The Exeter was lucky not to have been sunk... until the Battle of the Java Sea.
The Graf Spee was scuttled because she was low on an ammo and the Germans had been convinced that the British cruisers had been heavily reinforced.
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At 07:30 Exeter’s remaining turret was put out of action by loss of electrical power caused by flooding. Severely damaged, unable to fire and keep up with the action, Exeter broke off at about 07:40 and steamed slowly towards the Falklands.
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At the same time, efforts were made by the British to feed false intelligence to the Germans that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and the battlecruiser HMS Renown, when in fact only the heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland was nearby. Cumberland, one of the earlier County class, was only a little more powerful than Exeter, with two more 8-inch (203 mm) guns; she was no match alone for Admiral Graf Spee, whose 11-inch guns had longer range and fired much heavier shells. Cumberland arrived at 22:00 on 14 December after steaming at full speed for 36 hours from the Falkland Islands. Overwhelming British forces (HMS Renown, Ark Royal, Shropshire, Dorsetshire and Neptune) were en route, but would not assemble until December 19. For the time being, the total force comprised the undamaged Cumberland and damaged Ajax and Achilles.
The Germans, however, were entirely deceived, and expected to face a far superior force on leaving the River Plate. The Graf Spee had also used two-thirds of her 11” ammunition and only had enough left for approximately a further 20 minutes of firing, which was hardly enough to fight her way out of Montevideo, let alone get back to Germany.
Awesome build...and I hate to be a party pooper, but...What can you say about a guy who builds a Nazi battlecruiser, puts a Nazi plane’s designation on it as his registry number and conns it around the lake playing Wagner? Not sure he’s playing with a full deck, and probably doesn’t have Jewish neighbors.
Too bad it’s only available in Region 2 format DVD (at least at amazon)
The Battle of the River Plate
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/
THANK YOU so very much for this great recommendation....I found it at my neighborhood video store and watched it yesterday. EXCELLENT film, well worth my time.
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