Worst Admiral

what!!! better armored than the bismarck?
i do not think so!!!!
check this out:

http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/technic ... tails.html


http://www.bismarck-class.dk/technicall ... tails.html

 

if that was the case , then the scharnhorst would be bigger and heavyer than the bismarck
bismarck was over 50,000 fully loaded and the scharnhorts was 39,000

 

Well, the Scharnhorst was smaller.

Bismarck

http://www.schlachtschiff.com/kriegsmar ... /index.asp

Scharnhorst

http://www.schlachtschiff.com/kriegsmar ... /index.asp


Weight of Armor

Bismarck: 19.159 Tonnen/ 43.646 t 241,5 m

Scharnhorst: 14.245 Tonnen/ 39.643 t 226 m

 

bismarck overall lenght: 250.5 mts
scharnhorst overall lenght : 229.8 mts
bismarck beam: 36 mts
scharhorst beam : 30 mts
bismarck draught: 10.2 mts
scharnhorst draught : 9.93

not just smaller, but lighter and narrower

 

Given the appalling conditions under which the Battle of North Cape was fought, that's darned good shooting!

 

The number of torpedo hits needed to kill a BB varied wildly during the war.

FUSO: 1

MUSASHI: 21

BARHAM: 3

OKLAHOMA: 4

WEST VIRGINIA: 7

ROYAL OAK: 1


I'm going from memory on these figures, so if any of them are inaccurate and you have a more reliable figure, please supply it.

 

I think technically Royal Oak had several torps fired at her just most didn't work as advertised. Of course with all of her water tight door open Royal Oak never stood much of a chance.

 

that showed clearly the advantages of the radar!!!!
scharnhorst also was equiped with it but it was damage at the start of the battle , leaving the ship blinded

 

Indeed. I saw a documentary a couple of years ago where an expedition went down to the wreck of the SCHARNHORST, ala Bob Ballard. She was in really bad shape, with incredible amounts of battle damage. The RN nailed her good.

 

I think they reckon she suffered at least a partial magazine detonation. I believe the hull forward of A turret is basically gone.

 

Yes, totally separated from the rest of the wreck, IIRC. She took a much worse beating than BISMARCK did, overall.

 

basically both got the same treatment, the difference was the armour, salmon been a battlecruiser got thinner armour, in comparison with the bismarck

 

This is true, although I also think that the RN's gunnery was a lot better at North Cape than it was against BISMARCK.

 

indeed it was, since the DoY was equiped with radar, and that was a real advantage over anything, including the bismarck/tirpitz

 

Oh, absolutely. SCHARNHORST's return fire was nowhere near as accurate as what was being thrown at her, since she lacked the kind of gunnery radar the Brits had.

 

also the salmon's radar was put of out of services early in the battle, so the salmon was blind as a bat!!!

 

Which, in any naval battle, is exactly what you want your opponent to be.

 

preciesly, the RN used it's raddar to guid it's fire. against that the Germans couldn't stand a chance

 

And the fact that SCHARNHORST had become separated from her escorting destroyers didn't help her any.

 

indeed, not exactly a wise decision of rear-admiral eric bey to sent those destroyers away but i don't think it would have made a difference. the weather and the constantly darkness and the snowstorm would make a torpedo attack completly fail. i think that if those destroyers were their, they would have probably sunk as well