To: theDentist
My brain is fuzzy this morning. What size were the guns on the Graff Spee?
To: brothers4thID
Big.
4 posted on
02/27/2004 7:52:01 AM PST by
theDentist
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To: brothers4thID
Sorry, I just don't know.... :-)
5 posted on
02/27/2004 7:52:23 AM PST by
theDentist
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To: brothers4thID
Weren't they something like 14 inches.
Ohio class was 16 inch, and Yamato class was 18 inch.
6 posted on
02/27/2004 7:55:39 AM PST by
Chewbacca
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To: brothers4thID
Armament: six 11-inch (2x3), eight 5.9-inch (8x1), six 8.8cm (6x1), eight 21-inch torpedo tubes
7 posted on
02/27/2004 8:05:12 AM PST by
SAMWolf
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To: brothers4thID
The
Graf Spee mounted 6, 11-inch naval rifles mounted in 2 triple turrets.
The Bismark mounted 15-inch guns.
8 posted on
02/27/2004 8:06:32 AM PST by
Tallguy
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To: brothers4thID
Long range 11".
19 posted on
03/27/2004 4:10:55 PM PST by
U S Army EOD
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To: brothers4thID
Not that big. They were 11" calibre, in two triple turrets. The Graf Spee was in the Deutschland class of "pocket battleships" which were comparable at the time to heavy cruisers in size, though most heavy cruisers had 8" guns in the main battery. These ships were built with an illusion of following the Versailles treaty, consturction, starting just before the Nazi regime , though they did exceed the displacement limit of 10000 tons. It functioned mostly as a heavily armed, lightly armored merchant raider with a decent amount of speed.
To: brothers4thID
She carried six 11" (280 mm) guns which fired a 550 lb shell.
30 posted on
09/09/2004 7:00:57 AM PDT by
DarthVader
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To: brothers4thID
11” X 3 per turret x two turrets [same main guns as SCHARNHORST, GNIESENAU [three turrets], and the other two PANZERSCHIFFE [ADMIRAL SCHEER, and DEUTSCHLAND, later LUETZOW.
36 posted on
09/25/2007 8:07:45 PM PDT by
PzLdr
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