Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "SMS Scharnhorst - Guide 012 (Human Voice)" video.

  1. Spare a moment for Lady Von Spee back in Germany -- losing her husband and both sons in one terrible afternoon
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  2. I think it's significant that the Germs named their ships after generals, (S&G, Seydlitz, Blucher...) while the RN named theirs after admirals (Nelson, Rodney, Collingwood, etc)
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  3. I'd argue SMS Blucher was the last German Imperial Navy armored cruiser., since the Germans armed her with 8.2 inch guns, and appropriate armor thinking the British "Dreadnought Armored Cruisers" would be armed with 9.2 inch guns, Of course, they were the first battlecruisers - armed with 12 inch guns. As Blucher could not match them in firepower or armor, I consider it an armored cruiser. The last German armored cruisers were the Deutschland class "pocket battleships". By the 1930's, 11 inch guns were not capital ship weapons and they did not have the armor to resist capital ship guns - or even the guns of later armored cruisers like Dunkerque (8X13 inch) and Alaska (9X12 inch)
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