Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "HMS Spartan - Guide 300" video.

  1. There were a lot more Greeks at the Hot Gates than the Spartans "Thermopylae is primarily known for the battle that took place there in 480 BC, in which an outnumbered Greek force probably of 7,000(including 300 Spartans, 500 warriors from Tegea, 500 from Mantinea, 120 from Arcadian Orchomenos, 1,000 from the rest of Arcadia, 200 from Phlius, 80 from Mycenae, 400 Corinthians, 400 Thebans, 1,000 Phocians, 700 Thespians, and the Opuntian Locrians)"
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  2.  @proactiveomnipresentvessel6569  She did fight in the shade - one of the reasons she got sunk
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  3. USS Savannah? She took a Fritz -X 3460 pound guided armor piercing bomb " The bomb pierced the armored turret roof of Savannah's No. 3 gun turret, passed through three decks into the lower ammunition-handling room, where it exploded, blowing a hole in her keel and tearing a seam in the cruiser's port side. For at least 30 minutes, secondary explosions in the turret and its ammunition supply rooms hampered firefighting efforts. Savannah's crew quickly sealed off flooded and burned compartments, and corrected her list. With assistance from the salvage tugs Hopi and Moreno, Savannah got underway under her own steam by 1757 hours and steamed for Malta. Savannah lost 206 crewmen in this German counterattack. Thirteen other sailors were seriously wounded, and four more were trapped in a watertight compartment for 60 hours. These four sailors were not rescued until Savannah had already arrived at Grand Harbor, Valletta, Malta, on 12 September" If the bomb hadn't blown out the ships bottom and flooded the forward magazines, they could well have detonated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgx0GFllZQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5CKYhklVs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X#Usage_in_combat and
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  4. Excuse me, the first AA cruisers were the converted Kaiser War C class vessels. The Didos (and the Atlantas) were the result of the Second London Treaty which limited cruisers to 8000 tons, which meant 6 inch guns were out. They were intended to be small conventional fleet cruisers, analogous to the Kaiser War C class, not as AA cruisers. The 5.25 inch with its 80 pound shell was much more oriented to surface than AA work.
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  5. The RN invented it when they Kaiser War vintage C class. They were the first step towards the cruiser being part of a task force screen rather than operating indepently
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  6. Man, did I mess that up Anyway, here goes again The RN invented the AA cruiser when they converted Kaiser War vintage C class. They were the first step towards the cruiser being part of a task force screen rather than operating independently
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