Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "HMS Tiger (1913) - Not Exploding on the Job" video.

  1. Tiger is a very pretty ship among the Brits, only the bridge-tower a bit too forward, and the distance of the 2 aft-turrets scratch a little bit her beauty. Drachifinel's hypothetic debate about the ability of Scharnhorst's and Gneisenau's 11 inch guns in the point of view of the German admiralty might not hit the point. Raeder and Hitler feared the loss of prestige in the case that one of those battlecruisers would be sunk in a open battle. This was the major reason about the order to avoid engagements against british capital ships. Not everyone shared this opinion. Admiral Marshall was sent home to train the midshipmen, because he voted to attack any convoy even with heavy escorts. When the coward Lütjens replaced him in operation Berlin ordered by the loser Raeder, the squadron met a convoy excorted by Ramillies. Captain Hoffmann of Scharnhorst closed up to lure Ramillies away from the convoy to give Gneisenau the chance to sink the convoy, but the coward Lütjens signalled him back. Here the destruction of the Glorious on the propaganda-film Wochenschau-motion-pictures. They did not mention the heavy torpedo-hit Scharnhorst received. https://youtu.be/hs2lnF-LiCQ helps to count the rounds per minute of the 11 inch guns.
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