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To: henkster
Warspite earned more battle honors during World War Two than any other British warship.

During the Battle of Calabria (July 9, 1940), she achieved the longest hit on a moving target in history, shelling the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare from a range of over 26,000 yards. Heavily damaged off Italy by three German FX-1400 guided missiles on September 16, 1943, she barely made it back to port. Temporarily repaired, she returned to action as a bombardment monitor, shelling the Normandy defenses and several French ports before finally being put in reserve.

After the war, there was a strong movement to preserve her as a museum ship, but the British Admiralty refused to listen to these pleas and she was sold for scrap in 1947. A sad end to such a gallant ship.

14 posted on 05/05/2010 12:01:50 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

The British built all these magnificant ships in the late 19th thru World War II and the only one preserved is some dinky cruiser in the Thames. Very sad.


15 posted on 05/05/2010 1:30:22 PM PDT by C19fan
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