THE LOST BATTLECRUISERS

HMS INVINCIBLE, SMS LUTZOW ,

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[neckronn99]

What music was used for this? Excellent.

[elswick1542]

@neckronn99 Its by Craig Armstrong from the film Plunket and Maclain.

[caferacer56]

Jutland - the German perspective by V. E. Tarrant is a good read and very objective, very few errors and good maps, he has worked it out very well

[elswick1542]

Have got that one,good recent book is called Death in the grey wastes.

[TheMe110]

very good Pictures :)

[elswick1542]

Thanks

[shathriel]

as comic guy on the simpsons might say , worst troll ever

[hollin61]

@futch2121 ?easily

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@MrHistorian123 Thanks for pointing out that it was Inflexible. Your comment about Invincible's funnels seems ambiguous. I believe you are saying, as I implied in my other comment, that Invincible's funnels were all three of equal height. Regards. I once had models of Invincible and several other capital ships, armoured and light cruisers as well as destroyers of Jutland made out of balsa wood at a scale of 1" = 100'. A friend started making the High Seas fleet.

[MrHistorian123]

@FRAGIORGIO1 No - it's Inflexible.

1) I have that picture in one of Anthony Preston's books annotated as Inflexible; Invincible's funnels were equally tall.

2) Indomitable wasn't at the Battle of the Falkland islands.

[MrHistorian123]

@trims2u It would be a miracle if 11 inch gunfire caused it, as none of the German ships carried guns of that calibre!

Prinz Eugen mounted 8 inch guns; the nearest 11 inch guns were on Scharnhorst/Gneisenau which were c2000 miles away - a bit too far to do any damage.

[akula971]

@shathriel  IMS make a range of 1/350 WW1 German battleships.

[shathriel]

Shame you can not buy decent models of WW1 battlecruisers, though i am pleased with my recently aquired model of HMS Astute, for a sub it is a really nice model :)

[FRAGIORGIO1]

At 1:30 that must have been the Indomitable with her higher forefunnel.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

Invincible could be distinguished from her sisters, Indomitable and Inflexible, by their higher fore funnels. The "Lutzow" class ships with tripod masts could not be Lutzow, but either Derfflinger later in the war or the later-built Hindenburg. Many thanks for an excellent video!

[jimmywrangles]

@derbbus According to Ted Briggs one of the three survivors the 4" gundeck recieved a hit and the ready use ammunition started brewing up, that's the cordite burning right there, less than a minute later she exploded.

It's unclear as to what the exact cause was, It could have been the 4" magazine or the midsips torpedoes or even a main magazine that exploded..we'll never know for sure.

[derbbus]

@trims2u

I'm given to understand that the cordite used by the Royal Navy was rather volitile; once it ignited you got a big bang.

Prior to the hood actually exploding there was a huge de-flageration sending sheets of flame hundreds of feet into the air like some monsterous firework.

Thats certainly cordite burning; but freely, thats to say it wasn't confined inside the walls of a magazine.

It's a bit of a mystery why there wasn't just one, big, bang.