Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Russian and Soviet Battleships - Seizing the Means of Propulsion!" video.

  1. While limping home after its joust with SMS Nassau, HMS Spitfire sighted a fiercely-burning ship which the crew described thus: "...a mass of fire from foremast to mainmast, on deck and between decks. Flames were issuing out of her from every corner." This ship exploded around midnight. Spitfire's crew thought at the time that they'd seen a German battlecruiser, but none of the German battlecruisers at Jutland were lost in such a manner (the only German battlecruiser lost at all in the battle being Lützow, which succumbed to progressive massive flooding, not to fire). Later on, it was thought that Spitfire had seen the end of HMS Black Prince, which had vanished at some point during the night, but this is irreconcilable with the actual circumstances of Black Prince's sinking as established by the German accounts of the engagement, which show Black Prince blundering into the German battleline and being rapidly and violently destroyed by point-blank gunfire from at least four German dreadnoughts which would've been obvious to (and prominently-noted in the accounts of) the crew of Spitfire had the ship whose death they saw actually been Black Prince. However, none of the other ships lost during the night action at Jutland were lost in a manner matching the ship seen from Spitfire; the one that probably comes closest is SMS Pommern, but that ship was aflame only momentarily before it blew up and sank, and Pommern's torpedoing occurred both several hours too late (after three in the morning) and far too far to the southeast for the mystery ship to have been Pommern. So what was the ship that Spitfire's crew saw?
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