Most fearsome ship navigating the Atlantic??
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Most fearsome ship navigating the Atlantic??
Hi,
I wonder; What was the most fearsome ship navigated the Atlantic throughout the war?? I mean what was the ship that all the others were afraid to counter in the whole war period?
Except the Bismarck and U-boats
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Kaan
I wonder; What was the most fearsome ship navigated the Atlantic throughout the war?? I mean what was the ship that all the others were afraid to counter in the whole war period?
Except the Bismarck and U-boats
Best Regards
Kaan
Last edited by Kaan Caglar on 06 May 2004, 10:42, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Most fearsome ship navigating the Atlantic??
Not a battleship, but how about HMS Starling, Captain Walkers ship.Kaan Caglar wrote:Hi,
I wonder; What was the most fearsome battleship navigated the Atlantic throughout the war??
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It frightened the hell out of the U-boat crews
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What bit didn't you understand!
So the U-boats would be frightened of the escort group commanded by Walker. Jesus!
Don't you think the other ships counted? Wild Goose, Cygnet, Wren, Woodpecker and Kite. This proved to be a formidable team.HMS Starling, Captain Walkers ship.
It frightened the hell out of the U-boat crews
So the U-boats would be frightened of the escort group commanded by Walker. Jesus!
Tirpitz .... and she never navigated the Atlantic once!
But she was the most feared!
So much so that the British went to the trouble of developing a whole class of midget submarines (X-craft) and a 10,000 pound Tallboy bomb just for her benefit! Not to mention keeping a powerful battle fleet of battleships and a carrier at Scapa just in case she broke out! The British Admiralty remained obsessed with Tirpitz for three whole years.
The British abandoned and scattered convoy PQ17 on the mere THREAT of Tirpitz coming out of her Norwegian lair! Tirpitz went straight back home, never sighting a single British ship - while U-boats and bombers massacred the defenseless merchants.
Considering the immense effort and expense that the British put into keeping Tirpitz OUT of the Atlantic, I think she justified her building costs several times over!
But she was the most feared!
So much so that the British went to the trouble of developing a whole class of midget submarines (X-craft) and a 10,000 pound Tallboy bomb just for her benefit! Not to mention keeping a powerful battle fleet of battleships and a carrier at Scapa just in case she broke out! The British Admiralty remained obsessed with Tirpitz for three whole years.
The British abandoned and scattered convoy PQ17 on the mere THREAT of Tirpitz coming out of her Norwegian lair! Tirpitz went straight back home, never sighting a single British ship - while U-boats and bombers massacred the defenseless merchants.
Considering the immense effort and expense that the British put into keeping Tirpitz OUT of the Atlantic, I think she justified her building costs several times over!
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Exactly! I was waiting for someone to mention them. Aside from heading for the Panama Canal though, I believe only the Iowa herself crossed the Atlantic- to take FDR to one of his conferences in 1943-Teheran? I understand a special bathtub installed for him is still on board.varjag wrote:I would humbly suggest the four IOWA-class battleships that transited the Atlantic for lack of worthy opponents - to the Pacific. Apart from the two YAMATO's they were matchless.
USS Washington also worked with the British Home Fleet in 1942; if she had met Tirpitz I believe she would have prevailed. But she doesn't compare to the Iowa, which has to be the most powerful warship to have appeared in the Atlantic war zone, albeit briefly.
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Yep - let's keep the thread going...but Kaan did initially ask 'what would u most dread....' I suppose to spot at dawn - ten knots away and with the matelots NOT wearing my uniform. IF it had been the ENTERPRISE/YORKTOWN/HORNET I would net even have spotted them before I was badly hurt by their planes, because they would'nt be stupid enough to let me that close. But if my life depended on it - put me on one of the IOWA's and let 'em come, BISMARCKS/KGV's/NELSON's/Roma's - I'd take my chances on what I've learnt about battleships.
From the Germans point of view, how about the US Liberty Ships as the most fearsome thing!.
Cheap, mass-produced, easily replaced if sunk...and conveying US military might; men and equipment, to Britain and later Europe.
There is also a case to be made for US trucks as being the most "fearsome" item of Allied land equipment (how else would the Red Army have got to Berlin?).
Cheap, mass-produced, easily replaced if sunk...and conveying US military might; men and equipment, to Britain and later Europe.
There is also a case to be made for US trucks as being the most "fearsome" item of Allied land equipment (how else would the Red Army have got to Berlin?).