Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "First British Naval Defeat In 100 Years - Battle Of Coronel 1914" video.

  1. A battleship with a speed of 17 knots at most would have been little use to Cardock.
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  2. But, of course, the English won the one which mattered. As they frequently did.
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  3. Easy to say with the benefit of hindsight. Cradock had a Ship of Force, the pre-dreadnought HMS Canopus, but she was too slow to keep up with his cruisers.
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  4. Why, then, was Cradock a 'bad officer?'
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  5. Really? After Jutland the High Seas Fleet barely emerged from the Jade again, and certainly never risked confronting the Grand Fleet.
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  6.  @formwiz7096  No, but as a result the HSF became merely a fleet in being, and the Northern Patrol starved Germany into revolution and defeat, and the HSF into mutiny & surrender, all behind the shield of what you apparently suggest was the 'defeated' Grand Fleet.
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  7.  @formwiz7096  Who really cares what the ill-informed public did or didn't think? The Admiralty knew the truth of the matter. More importantly, so did Admiral Scheer, or he would not have gone straight to the All Highest, warned him that the HSF should not be risked again, and urged the re-introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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  8.  @formwiz7096  Simply incorrect. The HSF sailed twice more in 1916, but returned to the Jade very quickly upon receipt of reports that the Grand Fleet was approaching. 19 August, 1916. The intention was to raid the British East Coast near Sunderland. At 1215 a Zeppelin mistakenly reported a squadron of British light cruisers as a squadron of battleships. Scheer turned away, and when at 1435 a U-Boat reported the actual Grand Fleet around 65 miles north, Scheer wisely turned for home. On 18/19 October, 1916, aGerman sortie was abandoned almost before it had begun, after SMS Munchen was torpedoed by the submarine E38.
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  9.  @formwiz7096  Feel free to chexk my facts in any reputable history of the naval history of WW1. I won't write more as I know that I am correct.
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  10. I have a copy. It is superb, and some scenes stand comparison with Eisenstein.
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