Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "KMS Admiral Hipper - Guide 080" video.

  1. Kind of. PoW didn't make the same error. Worth noting too that just one 15"/42 or 14"/45 round on target, would've made Prinz Eugen's career dramatically shorter. (see HMS Defence & the Regia Marina's Frume & Zara for why Cruisers were typically kept away from hostile Capital Ships where possible)
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  2. Berwick did drive her opponent from the "field" though, thus still can be ascribed the victor. (a blooded boxer is no less a victor)
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  3.  @73Trident  I should have said WWI era* then.
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  4. Germany was also playing catchup with the RN in warship design, which was also a factor in the less efficient design. The British by contrast had benefitted from the 1922 & 1930 treaties being geared to accomidate their unique operational needs for Cruisers, as numbers mattered more than pure size. (which was proved right at the River Plate, with the largest Cruiser being mission killed by mostly smaller opponents, and then scuttled as soon as word of an approaching Battlecruiser hit home, the same type of ship that had slain the ship's namesake admiral a generation prior)
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  5. Arguably the WWI veteran Nagato attained the same feat, in far worse material condition.
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  6.  @ajsnagratin6504  No. DoY was still being fitted out at the time of this battle. My point was PoW engaged the correct target from the start, while the Bismarck's similar outline to her escort - and looking roughly the same size due to position - confused the Gunners on Hood for several minutes.
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  7. Blucher sealed Old Boney's final crushing defeat at Waterloo, after Wellington's Thin Red Line had broken the corsican emperor's best troops. #EnoughSaid
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  8. Technically so, but irrelevant. What enthusiasts & historians call her is up to them. Given that KMS literally means KriegsMarine Ship, it's also fitting as a differentiating identifier from the SMS Blucher of WWI. After all: nobody in the anglosphere calls the Russian "Elbrus" missile system by the latter original name, rather by what NATO dubbed it: "SCUD". Heck: Tanks would still be called "Armoured LandShips" by that logic.
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  9. Only Hood did though. PoW, Suffolk, Norfolk & the four Destroyers didn't, though as it was timing & weather had it that only two of the eight RN ships present engaged.
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  10. All the Sausages & Beer too XD.
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