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What if - Naval showdown in the English Channel
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Win nervously lose tragically - Reds C C
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Originally posted by Bigfella View PostI believe that at one point a British pre-WW1 monitor with a top speed of around 8 knots actually sailed along the French coast bombarding coastal guns & other facilties. it returned home unmolested (sorry, don't have details, had to return the book).
At the height of the BoB, HMS Erebus bombarded Calais with her two 15-inch guns, but the German battery of four 11-inch guns at Gris Nez failed to hit her.
Insultingly, during one night in October, the battleship Revenge crossed the Channel and bombarded Cherbourg dockyard and its assembled invasion shipping with one hundred and twenty 15-inch shells.
In half an hour of retaliatory fire on it and its seven destroyer escorts, the shore batteries had no success.
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Originally posted by clackers View PostYou've got a good memory, Bigfella!
At the height of the BoB, HMS Erebus bombarded Calais with her two 15-inch guns, but the German battery of four 11-inch guns at Gris Nez failed to hit her.
Insultingly, during one night in October, the battleship Revenge crossed the Channel and bombarded Cherbourg dockyard and its assembled invasion shipping with one hundred and twenty 15-inch shells.
In half an hour of retaliatory fire on it and its seven destroyer escorts, the shore batteries had no success.sigpic
Win nervously lose tragically - Reds C C
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The Monitors would have been a very diffacult target to hit IMO. Extremely low draft (some deck edges on some literaly awash when at sea) almost no profile superstructure (nowhere near a destroyers size or escorts) to hit from line of sight fire and some mounted some very big guns.
You would have stood a better chance hitting it with airplanes.Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.
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Oops, I guess I need to read more than one page back before I comment.
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