Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "When Six Men Sunk Two Battleships - The Raid on Alexandria" video.

  1. The morning after the attack, the traditional Colours ceremony took place on Queen Elizabeth's quarterdeck, complete with her Royal Marine band, and Cunningham present in person. ABC records in his autobiography that it had been intended that the regular Italian reconnaissance flight be 'allowed' to evade RAF patrols, but he was never sure if this happened.
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  2. Indomitable wasn't with Force Z.
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  3. She did. The pair were more or less identical, except one had a pole mainmast and the other a tripod.
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  4.  @halowerder3356  Sorry to spoil the illusion, but actually it was Warspite which hit Guilio Cesare from 26,000 yards, rather than the other way round. Warspite was not hit during the action. Calabria, as the British call it, was indecisive at best, although it was beneficial to the British in that it enabled Cunningham to argue that the obsolete Royal Sovereign be replaced in his fleet by the faster, modernised, Queen Elizabeths. Oh, and this 'The British officers were baffled by the accuracy of Italian Battleships and after the battle tried to deny the hits Warspite received because they didn't want to admit they got outgunned by the Italians' by the way, is simply nonsense, as 'The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1940–1943,' by Jack Green &, Alessandro Massignani, makes clear.
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  5.  @sandrodunatov485  No such documents will be found, because Warspite was never hit. Indeed, the day after Calabria, at 0830, she was part of a protective screen for a strike by Eagle's aircraft on Augusta.
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  6.  @sandrodunatov485  Reality is unambiguous. Cesare was hit from 26,000 yards, whereas Warspite was not hit at all. Cunningham's actions are easily explained. His two older battleships were unable to keep up, and he was concerned not to leave his cruisers exposed. What source do you have for your imaginary hit on Warspite and, if she had been hit, why was the attack on Augusta carried out on the following day?
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  7.  @sandrodunatov485  What research into this imaginary hit? What sources? You are posting nonsense, or at least indulging in a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Incidentally, what 'superior' forces did Cunningham have? His two old battleships could not keep up, and the rest of his force consisted of Warspite, one carrier, five light cruisers, and sixteen destroyers, facing two battleships, six heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers, and 16 destroyers. Certainly, Warspite remained in service later in the war after suffering damage, but as a bombardment ship, not as a front-line fleet unit. Surely you understand the difference? Still, enjoy your fantasy. Just don't expect to be taken seriously.
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  8.  @andrewworth4810  The obvious difference being that the Italians never knew that their attack had been successful.
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