Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Heroic End of HMS Rawalpindi and HMS Jervis Bay" video.

  1. Perhaps you might have missed it, but Fegan died as well. He didn't 'send' his crew to certain death, he led them, in an attempt to save the convoy his ship was escorting.
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  2. You don't think that delaying an enemy warship long enough to allow most of the convoy you are excorting to escape isn't 'heroic?'
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  3.  @stefanschnabel2769  Then you disagree with the assessment of Admiral Krancke, then? The man who commanded Admiral Scheer at the time? ‘“For 22 minutes and exactly 22 seconds, the gallant Jervis Bay … drew the concentrated fire of the main guns of the Admiral Scheer. Outgunned, outclassed and unarmored, the result was inevitable. God knows, those men had put themselves in their country’s debt” Admiral Theodor Krancke, Pocket Battleship (1958).
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  4.  @stefanschnabel2769  I will only note two things : 1). Words of the captain of Admiral Scheer. 2). The fact that you have decided that you know better. 'Those men could have made some meaningful contribution to the war effort.' You don't think that the fact that Jervis Bay's action, in enabling convoy HX84 to scatter, resulting in the loss of five ships from a convoy of thirty seven, was anything other than 'meaningful?'
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  5.  @stefanschnabel2769  'Why is this so difficult to understand?' I really don't know. Perhaps you have cognitive difficulties, or perhaps you simply have some perverse reason or other for not accepting the obvious? You seem to know little about gunnery, either. The fact that a ship could fire a shell for 20 miles doesn't mean that it could hit anything at 20 miles. The longest known hit by a German 11 inch gun was on HMS Glorious, at a range of 26,000 yards, or 13 nautical miles. Graf Spee, at the River Plate action, opened fire at a range of 19,500 metres, or about 10.5 nautical miles. Don't you know anything? The Adniralty honoured Captain Fegan because he sacrificed himself, his crew, and his ship, in defence of the convoy he was escorting. The Victoria Cross, unlike some other medals, is not awarded on a whim. Oh, and 22 minutes during which Admiral Scheer was engaging Jervis Bay, was 22 minutes when she was unable to fire on other ships in the convoy, which were scattering in diverse directions in fading light. Hence, Admiral Scheer's failure to achieve much against the convoy. Good luck trying to find any naval historian or writer who agrees with you. Either you are very young, very stupid, or very prejudiced. Whichever it is, I am done with you and your crass comments. Do not expect any further responses to your inane remarks.
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  6. Don't be so obvious an idiot.
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  7. HMS Rawalpindi's best speed was 15 knots. Scharnhorst & Gneisenau could manage over 30. Once spotted, her destruction was inevitable.
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